AI and Artworks: Object Detection, Image Classification and Iconographic Analysis

Session

Collections

17 Apr 2026, 11:40

Seminar room 1&2 (Postsparkasse)

36. Object Detection for Visual Analysis of Medieval Charters: Decoration and Its Makers in Papal Documents

Florian Atzenhofer-Baumgartner (University of Graz), Martin Roland (Austrian Academy of Sciences)

17/04/2026, 11:40

Talk

This paper addresses the application of deep learning tools to the charter-specific platform Monasterium.net, with particular focus on the “Illuminated Charters” collection. Building on the object detection pipeline developed within the project DiDip, we extend its application toward art-historical and diplomatist analysis, a task previously requiring prohibitive manual effort.
The DiDip...

34. Between Potential and Practicality: Exploring AI’s Potential in an Incomplete, Low-Resource Art Collection

Dr Zsuzsa Sidó (Institute of Art History, ELTE Research Center for the Humanities – Art Collection of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences)

17/04/2026, 12:00

Talk

This contribution examines what AI-supported object detection, image classification analysis and data enrichment look like from the vantage point of a small-sized 19th-20th century art collection that is only partially inventoried, unevenly digitized, and structurally under-resourced. The Art Collection of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences – comprising mainly painted and sculpted portraits,...

26. Using AI for Icon Analysis

Ljudmila Djukic (Belgrade)

17/04/2026, 12:20

Talk

Title: Using AI for Icon Analysis
The paper examines the AI analysis of the selection of icons exhibited at "The Light of the Logos," an international, juried exhibition of sacred art held in Belgrade in August 2025. This exhibition showcased the works of some of the most significant and talented icon painters from Serbia and around the globe. Featuring over a hundred meticulously crafted...