Research project AAA

AAA – Augmented Artwork Analysis. Computer-aided interpretation device for art images

An application designed to be used in front of a painting in a museum – for an enhanced experience of the work of art, for an active relation with the images.

The project at a glance

  • Start date:
    01 Mar 2021
  • Duration in months:
    48
  • Funding:
    FNR / Agence Nationale de la Recherche
  • Principal Investigator(s):
    Gian Maria Tore
    Pierluigi Basso (external)

About

Today, we are surrounded by images – but the school system does not teach us how to read them. Museums work on their conservation, although unhappily they do not seem very attractive to us. On the other hand, the digital is supposed to revolutionize our life, since it seems to give us all kind of power on images and texts, but how to make a groundbreaking approach to images out of it?

鈥淎ugmented Artwork Analysis鈥 is an innovative prototype tool, adapted to the museum sector (namely the MNHA of Luxembourg, the Fine Arts Museums of Lyon and of Lille) and allowing to interpret artistic images with the help of software. The aim is to study the different levels (the figures, the colours, the shapes鈥) of the work of art considered in its original place and within a vast body of images. Attention will be paid to the links between the images and to their evolution. The interpretation thus acquires a scientific dimension, as well as a pedagogical one.

The scientific objective is to bring together the most advanced approaches in quantitative and in qualitative sciences: recent findings in Visual Studies, knowledge about 鈥渁ugmented reality鈥, i.e. the ways in which computer-generated perceptual information showcases objects of the real world, and methods based on “deep learning鈥, which means the use of machine learning methods. An international network of more than 20 scholars is gathered for the realization of the 鈥淎ugmented Artwork Analysis鈥. Delivering an 鈥渁ugmented鈥 work of art, this tool will be used for guided tours, educational meetings and research. The idea is to create an alternative museum to the traditional museums, and thus a new awareness of the meanings of the world of images.

The project is a cooperation between the French CNRS, the Universit茅 Lyon 2, the Universit茅 de Li猫ge and the 8xav福利导航 of Luxembourg funded by the ANR/FNR funding program

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Project Team

Principal Investigators

Gian Maria Tore
Gian Maria TORE

Semiotics/Visual studies, 8xav福利导航 of Luxembourg

Pierluigi BASSO FOSSALI

Professor of Language Sciences, Universit茅 Lumi猫re Lyon 2

Art History / Semiotics Main Researchers

Roxanne Loos
Roxanne LOOS

Guest Professor / Post-doctoral researcher on the “Augmented Artwork Analysis”, UCLouvain – Saint-Louis Bruxelles

Lisa PAILLUSI脠RE

Fine Arts Museums, Universit茅 Lumi猫re Lyon 2

Art History & Visual Semiotics

Ralph DEKONINC

Art/theory, Universit茅 catholique de Louvain

Sophie RAUX

Professor of Art History, Universit茅 Lumi猫re Lyon 2

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Mathias BLANC

Research Scientist, 8xav福利导航 of Luxembourg

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Sophie DOUBLET

Research and Development Specialist, 8xav福利导航 of Luxembourg

LMCCD Team

  • Thibaut LATOUR
  • Pierre DE LA CELLE
  • Jessica MELDON
  • Ludovic KIEFFER

Serge MIGUET

Professor in Computer Science, Universit茅 Lumi猫re Lyon 2

Mihaela SCUTURINI

PhD/Professor (Associate), Universit茅 Lumi猫re Lyon 2

Tess MASCLEF

PhD in Computer Science/Deep Learning and image processing, Universit茅 Lumi猫re Lyon 2

Tatiana YEMELIANENKO

PhD/Associate Professor, Universit茅 Lumi猫re Lyon 2

Julien THIBURCE

Language Sciences & UX – User Experience, Universit茅 Lumi猫re Lyon 2

Sofiane DOULFAQUAR

Assistant engineer in data processing, production and analysis, Universit茅 Lumi猫re Lyon 2

Universit茅 de Li猫ge

Maria Giulia DONDERO

Professor of Visual Semiotics and the Semiotics of Photography

Pierre LECLERCQ

Professor at the Faculty of Applied Sciences

Raihana ALLANI

PhD/Professor Associate

Adrien DELI脠GE

FNRS Research Fellow & Fonds assoc.

8xav福利导航 of Luxembourg

Marion COLAS-BLAISE

Linguistics & Semiotics Professor

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Andreas FICKERS

Director of the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History

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Sean TAKATS

Full professor / Chief scientist in Digital History

Lars WIENEKE

Head of Digital Infrastructure

Nicol谩s Mar铆n BAYONA

Doctoral Researcher

Lena V脰GELE

Specialist in design for user experience optimization

Universit茅 Lumi猫re Lyon 2

Gerald NICCOLAI

PhD/Senior Researcher

Organisation and Partners

  • Department of Humanities
  • Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE)
  • Institute of Romance Studies, Media and Arts
  • Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH)
  • Universit茅 Lumi猫re Lyon 2
  • Mus茅e National d'Histoire et d'Art du Luxembourg (MNHA)
  • Universit茅 de Li猫ge
  • Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille
  • Universit茅 Catholique de Louvain
  • Mus茅e des Beaux-Arts de Lyon

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