Name: AI and Artworks: Object Detection, Image Classification and Iconographic Analysis
Start: 2026-04-16T08:45:00+02:00
End: 2026-04-17T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Postsparkasse

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

from Thursday, 16 April 2026 (08:45) to Friday, 17 April 2026 (17:00)

Monday, 13 April 2026
Tuesday, 14 April 2026
Wednesday, 15 April 2026
Thursday, 16 April 2026

08:45 Arrival and Registration
Arrival and Registration
08:45 - 09:00
Room: Seminar room 1&2

09:00 Introduction

09:00 - 09:30
Room: Seminar room 1&2
09:30 Models
09:30 - 11:00
Room: Seminar room 1&2
Contributions

09:30 Meta-Acervos - Thiago Hersan (Parsons School of Design) Giselle Beiguelman (University of São Paulo) Ana Gonçalves Magalhães (University of São Paulo)

09:50 A Benchmark Dilemma: Between Representativeness and Domain-Specificity - Marta Kipke (Center for Humanities Computing, Aarhus University) Louise Brix Pilegaard Hansen (Center for Humanities Computing, Aarhus University)

10:10 Learning from Small Data: Adapting Pretrained Diffusion Models for 17th-Century Painting - Katarina Mohar (Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, ZRC SAZU) Rok Vrabič (University of Ljubljana)
11:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Seminar room 1&2
11:30 Augmented Data
11:30 - 13:00
Room: Seminar room 1&2
Contributions

11:30 Beyond Vision: Metadata-Augmented AI for Iconclass Classification in Medieval Manuscripts - Drew Thomas (University of Salzburg) Julia Hintersteiner (University of Salzburg)

11:50 Digital Iconology. Classification and Association in Visual Knowledge Systems - Charles van den Heuvel (University of Amsterdam / Huygens Institute) Etienne Posthumus (FIZ Karlsruhe) Hans Brandhorst (ICONCLASS)

12:10 Exploring AI Approaches on Image Data Mining in Collections of the Austrian National Library - Carla Maria Schnedlitz (Austrian National Library) Christoph Steindl (Austrian National Library) Johannes Knüchel (Austrian National Library) Simon Mayer (Austrian National Library)
13:00 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
13:00 - 14:00
Room: Seminar room 1&2
14:00 Layout
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Seminar room 1&2
Contributions

14:00 Computational Analysis of Medieval Pen Flourishing - Markus Seidl (University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten) Florian Kibler (University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten) Martin Haltrich (Research Center Stift Klosterneuburg) Max Theisen (Research Center Stift Klosterneuburg) Victor-Adriel De-Jesus-Oliveira (University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten)

14:20 AI and Automatic Visual Recognition: Some Thoughts on the New Digital Methodologies for Image Retrieval - Barbara Tramelli (Freie Universität Bozen)

14:40 Large-scale Study of Text-Image Layout in 20th-Century Periodicals – As a Reaction to the Absence of Archival Documents - Marta Pizzagalli (Università della Svizzera italiana / Cambridge University) Rocco Felici (Università della Svizzera italiana / Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana)
15:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 15:45
Room: Seminar room 1&2
15:45 Poster Session
15:45 - 16:30
Room: Seminar room 1&2
Contributions

16:05 Artificially Intelligent Art History? A Transcultural Evaluation of Algorithmic Systems Building on Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas - Mert Özdemir (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf)

16:10 Faces of Nobility. AI-Assisted Image Analysis of the Wiener Salonblatt (1870–1938) - Christian Lendl (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
16:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:30 - 16:45
Room: Seminar room 1&2
16:45 Bias
16:45 - 17:45
Room: Seminar room 1&2
Contributions

16:45 Disentangling Bias – Model, Corpus, or Both? - Ellen Charlesworth (University of Luxembourg) Ludovica Schaerf (University of Zurich)

17:05 The Algorithmic Canon and the Politics of Non-Western Visibility in the Age of AI - Elham Etemadi (Arkin University of Creative Arts and Design)
17:45 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
17:45 - 18:00
Room: Seminar room 1&2
18:00 Keynote 1
18:00 - 19:00
Room: Seminar room 1&2
Contributions

18:00 The Stables of Augeas: Standardizing Metadata with Iconclass Will Benefit AI - Etienne Posthumus (FIZ Karlsruhe) Hans Brandhorst (ICONCLASS)
Friday, 17 April 2026
09:00 Keynote 2
09:00 - 10:00
Room: Seminar room 1&2
Contributions

09:00 Attributes, Objects, Poses, Scenes and Bias: Retrospective and Future Challenges of Art History and Computer Vision - Peter Bell (Philipps-University Marburg)
10:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:00 - 10:20
Room: Seminar room 1&2
10:20 Relations
10:20 - 11:20
Room: Seminar room 1&2
Contributions

10:20 From Data to Context: AI-Based Style Attribution in Art History - Teresa Kamencek (University of Vienna) Velitchko Filipov (Technical University of Vienna) Michaela Tuscher (Technical University of Vienna) Silvia Miksch (Technical University of Vienna) Raphael Rosenberg (University of Vienna)

10:40 Embedding-Based Image Analysis for Art Historical Research: Integrating AI into Digital Catalogues Raisonnés - Kiersten Thamm (HPF Innovations GmbH / Navigating.art)
11:20 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:20 - 11:40
Room: Seminar room 1&2
11:40 Collections
11:40 - 13:10
Room: Seminar room 1&2
Contributions

11:40 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)

12:00 Between Potential and Practicality: Exploring AI’s Potential in an Incomplete, Low-Resource Art Collection - Zsuzsa Sidó (Institute of Art History, ELTE Research Center for the Humanities – Art Collection of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences)

12:20 Using AI for Icon Analysis - Ljudmila Djukic (Belgrade)