Algorithmic Ways of Seeing: Using Object Detection to Facilitate Art Exploration

arXiv:2403.19174v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: This Research through Design paper explores how object detection may be applied to a large digital art museum collection to facilitate new ways of encountering and experiencing art. We present the design and evaluation of an interactive application called SMKExplore, which allows users to explore a museum's digital collection of paintings by browsing through objects detected in the images, as a novel form of open-ended exploration. We provide three contributions. First, we show how an …

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