Aesthetic Appraisal of Art - from Eye Movements to Computers

dc.contributor.authorWallraven, Christianen_US
dc.contributor.authorCunningham, Douglas W.en_US
dc.contributor.authorRigau, Jaumeen_US
dc.contributor.authorFeixas, Miquelen_US
dc.contributor.authorSbert, Mateuen_US
dc.contributor.editorOliver Deussen and Peter Hallen_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-10-22T07:19:16Z
dc.date.available2013-10-22T07:19:16Z
dc.date.issued2009en_US
dc.description.abstractBy looking at a work of art, an observer enters into a dialogue. In this work, we attempt to analyze this dialogue with both behavioral and computational tools. In two experiments, observers were asked to look at a large number of paintings from different art periods and to rate their visual complexity, or their aesthetic appeal. During these two tasks, their eye movements were recorded. The complexity and aesthetic ratings show clear preferences for certain artistic styles and were based on both low-level and high-level criteria. Eye movements reveal the time course of the aesthetic dialogue as observers try to interpret and understand the painting. Computational analyses of both the ratings (using measures derived from information theory) and the eye tracking data (using two models of saliency) showed that our computational tools are already able to explain some properties of this dialogue.en_US
dc.description.seriesinformationComputational Aesthetics in Graphics, Visualization, and Imagingen_US
dc.identifier.isbn978-3-905674-17-0en_US
dc.identifier.issn1816-0859en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.2312/COMPAESTH/COMPAESTH09/137-144en_US
dc.publisherThe Eurographics Associationen_US
dc.titleAesthetic Appraisal of Art - from Eye Movements to Computersen_US
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