This paper describes our experience in combining a large
corpus of material that was classified manually over decades of Art His-
torical and Book History research using the ICONCLASS4 subject clas-
sification system with heuristics based on a current state-of-the-art neu-
ral network (CLIP from OpenAI), leveraging visual similarity to provide
suggestions for automated classification of cultural heritage content. The
effectiveness of the approach is demonstrated through an evaluation of
the underlying extreme multi-label classification problem.
%0 Conference Paper
%1 posthumus2022historians
%A Posthumus, Etienne
%A Brandhorst, Hans
%A Sack, Harald
%D 2022
%K art art_history book_history computer_vision fiziseown ise subject_classification
%T The Art Historian’s Bicycle Becomes an E-Bike.
%X This paper describes our experience in combining a large
corpus of material that was classified manually over decades of Art His-
torical and Book History research using the ICONCLASS4 subject clas-
sification system with heuristics based on a current state-of-the-art neu-
ral network (CLIP from OpenAI), leveraging visual similarity to provide
suggestions for automated classification of cultural heritage content. The
effectiveness of the approach is demonstrated through an evaluation of
the underlying extreme multi-label classification problem.
@inproceedings{posthumus2022historians,
abstract = {This paper describes our experience in combining a large
corpus of material that was classified manually over decades of Art His-
torical and Book History research using the ICONCLASS4 subject clas-
sification system with heuristics based on a current state-of-the-art neu-
ral network (CLIP from OpenAI), leveraging visual similarity to provide
suggestions for automated classification of cultural heritage content. The
effectiveness of the approach is demonstrated through an evaluation of
the underlying extreme multi-label classification problem.},
added-at = {2022-09-08T12:19:38.000+0200},
author = {Posthumus, Etienne and Brandhorst, Hans and Sack, Harald},
biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/28da559814cf5d0afd1628c22404aa411/vivienvetter},
eventtitle = {VISART 2022 (Workshop at the European Conference of Computer Vision (ECCV)},
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keywords = {art art_history book_history computer_vision fiziseown ise subject_classification},
timestamp = {2022-09-08T12:19:38.000+0200},
title = {The Art Historian’s Bicycle Becomes an E-Bike.},
year = 2022
}