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

Session

Keynote 2

17 Apr 2026, 09:00

Seminar room 1&2 (Postsparkasse)

37. Attributes, Objects, Poses, Scenes and Bias: Retrospective and Future Challenges of Art History and Computer Vision

Prof. Peter Bell (Philipps-University Marburg)

17/04/2026, 09:00

Talk

Strong AI seems to solve every question and task in a chat interface which is easy to use by scholars of the humanities. Multimodal approaches in AI lately obscured the sharp distinctions in machine learning with its research field computer vision and various methods like object recognition, pose estimation and scene understanding. Art historians who test this promise of strong AI are either...