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Title: Image Indexing


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Image Indexing
  • Peter Konin
  • TSRT Spring Meeting
  • April 25, 2008

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Judith Leyster, The Last Drop (The Gay Cavalier)
c. 1639
Image Indexing Peter Konin
4/25/08
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Image Attributes
  • How do we describe images?
  • what they are
  • what they mean
  • who made them
  • what else?

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Image Attributes
  • Three main players
  • Irwin Panofsky
  • Sara Shatford Layne
  • Alejandro Jaimes Shih-Fu Chang

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Irwin Panofsky
  • Three levels of meaning
  • pre-iconographic what is depicted (ofness)
  • iconographic what it represents (aboutness)
  • iconological knowledge of first two levels
    required, image put into context and meaning

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  • Pre-Iconographic
  • man
  • woman
  • mirror
  • dog
  • hat
  • window
  • bed
  • chandelier
  • shoes
  • Iconographic
  • marriage
  • Iconological
  • fidelity

Jan van Eyck, The Arnolfini Portrait, 1434
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Sara Shatford Layne
  • Four Attributes
  • biographical
  • subject
  • exemplified
  • relationship

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Biographical
  • creator information
  • artist/maker
  • title
  • date
  • location
  • material
  • travel information
  • prices paid
  • loan/exhibit info

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Subject
  • three aspects
  • can cover both of- and about- ness
  • can be both generic and specific
  • can be classified into four facetstime, space,
    activites/events, and objects

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Exemplified Relationship
  • Exemplified image can be an example of
    something
  • Relationship used for images that have similar
    versions by the same artist or images with
    preliminary sketches

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Alejandro Jaimes Shih-Fu Chang
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Alejandro Jaimes Shih-Fu Chang
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Contemporary Projects
  • IBMs QBIC (Hermitage)
  • Tate Museum

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Controlled Vocabularies
  • AAT
  • TGM
  • Iconclass
  • British Museum Object Names

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Social Tagging
  • Flickr
  • ESP Game
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art

Image Indexing Peter Konin
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Issues
  • Exhaustivity
  • Who is qualified?
  • Anticipating future research needs
  • Transfer of media

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Exhaustivity
What should be included? What should be
exluded?
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