# Context-Aware Embeddings for Automatic Art Analysis

## TL;DR

This paper introduces context-aware embeddings for automatic art analysis, combining neural network representations with artistic attribute relationships to improve classification and retrieval accuracy.

## Contribution

It proposes two novel methods for incorporating contextual artistic information into visual embeddings, enhancing performance over traditional approaches.

## Key findings

- Up to 7.3% improvement in art classification accuracy.
- Up to 37.24% improvement in cross-modal retrieval.
- Effective use of multi-task learning and knowledge graphs for context encoding.

## Abstract

Automatic art analysis aims to classify and retrieve artistic representations from a collection of images by using computer vision and machine learning techniques. In this work, we propose to enhance visual representations from neural networks with contextual artistic information. Whereas visual representations are able to capture information about the content and the style of an artwork, our proposed context-aware embeddings additionally encode relationships between different artistic attributes, such as author, school, or historical period. We design two different approaches for using context in automatic art analysis. In the first one, contextual data is obtained through a multi-task learning model, in which several attributes are trained together to find visual relationships between elements. In the second approach, context is obtained through an art-specific knowledge graph, which encodes relationships between artistic attributes. An exhaustive evaluation of both of our models in several art analysis problems, such as author identification, type classification, or cross-modal retrieval, show that performance is improved by up to 7.3% in art classification and 37.24% in retrieval when context-aware embeddings are used.