Automatic extraction of brushstroke orientation from paintings: POET: prevailing orientation extraction technique

摘要

Can we use machines to analyze paintings? This paper presents a new technique-the prevailing orientation extraction technique (POET)-that is designed for the "automatic extraction of the orientation of brushstrokes from digital reproductions of paintings." The work "is motivated by the difficulty of segmenting individual brushstrokes in Van Gogh's works," which is also difficult for human operators.