A Computational Approach for the Study of Color Modulation and Contrasts in Visual Art

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dc.contributor.authorAgahchen, Anissa
dc.contributor.supervisorBranzan Albu, Alexandra
dc.date.accessioned2014-08-28T18:31:23Z
dc.date.available2014-08-28T18:31:23Z
dc.date.copyright2014en_US
dc.date.issued2014-08-28
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Computer Science
dc.degree.levelMaster of Science M.Sc.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis describes a computational approach for analyzing the color aesthetics of images from the perspective of color theory. Our work has been informed by the works of Johannes Itten, one of the most influential theorists of color aesthetics. To the best of our knowledge, developing computational models that are based on Itten's theories is our unique contribution to Computer Vision. We focus on three aspects of color usage in visual art, namely modulation, contrast of hue and cold-warm contrast. For modulation, we introduce the color palette, a novel 3D visualization of the chromatic information of an image in the HSL space and propose a set of simple descriptors for evaluating color modulation. For contrast of hue, we assess the spatial color composition of the homogeneous regions. For cold-warm contrast, we assess the spatial color composition of the homogeneous regions and the hue adjacencies. Further, we assess the relative warmth of the homogeneous regions and adjacent hues. We also propose a visualization, namely a 3D histogram to visualize the patterns of the contrasts in an artist's paintings. We validate our methods by comparing our results with Itten's descriptions and comments. We hope that this computational approach improves the color-based features used in the aesthetic classification of images.en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0984en_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationAgahchen, Anissa, and Alexandra Branzan Albu. "Towards Understanding Beautiful Things: A Computational Approach for the Study of Color Modulation in Visual Art." In Eurographics 2014-Short Papers, pp. 21-24. The Eurographics Association, 2014.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/5625
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rights.tempAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectcolor modulationen_US
dc.subjectcontrast of hueen_US
dc.subjectcold-warm contrasten_US
dc.subjectvisual arten_US
dc.subjectIttenen_US
dc.subjectcomputer visionen_US
dc.subjectbusiness documenten_US
dc.subjectcomputational modelen_US
dc.subjectcolor palette visualizationen_US
dc.titleA Computational Approach for the Study of Color Modulation and Contrasts in Visual Arten_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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