DeepPainter: Painter classification using deep convolutional autoencoders

Omid E. David, Nathan S. Netanyahu

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Abstract

In this paper we describe the problem of painter classification, and propose a novel approach based on deep convolutional autoencoder neural networks. While previous approaches relied on image processing and manual feature extraction from paintings, our approach operates on the raw pixel level, without any preprocessing or manual feature extraction. We first train a deep convolutional autoencoder on a dataset of paintings, and subsequently use it to initialize a supervised convolutional neural network for the classification phase. The proposed approach substantially outperforms previous methods, improving the previous state-of-the-art for the 3-painter classification problem from 90.44% accuracy (previous state-of-the-art) to 96.52% accuracy, i.e., a 63% reduction in error rate.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationArtificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning - 25th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2016, Proceedings
EditorsAlessandro E.P. Villa, Paolo Masulli, Antonio Javier Pons Rivero
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages20-28
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)9783319447803
DOIs
StatePublished - 2016
Event25th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning, ICANN 2016 - Barcelona, Spain
Duration: 6 Sep 20169 Sep 2016

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9887 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference25th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning, ICANN 2016
Country/TerritorySpain
CityBarcelona
Period6/09/169/09/16

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