Ukiyo-e Analysis and Creativity with Attribute and Geometry Annotation

The study of Ukiyo-e, an important genre of pre-modern Japanese art, focuses on the object and style like other artwork researches. Such study has benefited from the renewed interest by the machine learning community in culturally important topics, leading to interdisciplinary works including collec...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2021-06
Main Authors: Tian, Yingtao, Tarin Clanuwat, Suzuki, Chikahiko, Kitamoto, Asanobu
Format: Article
Language:English
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Machine learning
Quantitative analysis
Sketches
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Summary:The study of Ukiyo-e, an important genre of pre-modern Japanese art, focuses on the object and style like other artwork researches. Such study has benefited from the renewed interest by the machine learning community in culturally important topics, leading to interdisciplinary works including collections of images, quantitative approaches, and machine learning-based creativities. They, however, have several drawbacks, and it remains challenging to integrate these works into a comprehensive view. To bridge this gap, we propose a holistic approach We first present a large-scale Ukiyo-e dataset with coherent semantic labels and geometric annotations, then show its value in a quantitative study of Ukiyo-e paintings' object using these labels and annotations. We further demonstrate the machine learning methods could help style study through soft color decomposition of Ukiyo-e, and finally provides joint insights into object and style by composing sketches and colors using colorization. Dataset available at https://github.com/rois-codh/arc-ukiyoe-faces
ISSN:2331-8422