Nearly 1,000 Paintings and Drawings by Vincent van Gogh Digitized and Put Online

Re:Nearly 1,000 Paintings and Drawings by Vincent van Gogh D... by rococode on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @01:23PM (#17500213)

Woah. In an ML class I took last fall we got to design our own classification challenge problems that the entire class then competed on.

The one our group made used this exact dataset (the museum website)! We called it VANGOGHORNO haha. We basically pulled the images from the collection and mixed them with non-Van Gogh paintings. It was surprisingly a very learnable dataset, the top two teams got around 97% accuracy and many teams got to 90%. We resized the images and included paintings from vaguely similar styles like impressionism so we were surprised people did that well. I think the top team used some kind of transfer learning to identify entities in the paintings and learned from that.

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Re:Nearly 1,000 Paintings and Drawings by Vincent van Gogh D... by Someone on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @03:21PM (#17509557)

”It was surprisingly a very learnable dataset”

It also is a dataset where cheating is quite easy. A google search may quickly turn up items you left out of the training set.

Do you know whether any teams did this (could even have happened by accident, if people googled to find different views of paintings, and accidentally included pictures not in the training set)?

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Re:Nearly 1,000 Paintings and Drawings by Vincent van Gogh D... by ArcticCelt on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @01:32PM (#17500329)

Is there some downloadable archive file of all painting in the higher resolution or did you simply roll your own web scraper?

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Re:Nearly 1,000 Paintings and Drawings by Vincent van Gogh D... by bnegreve on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @12:35AM (#17504499)

In case you're looking for supervised art datasets for machine learning, I made a little art-movement classifier you may be interested in.

Demo here: https://bit.ly/2xClNHz

data and models are available for download.

You can also have a look at art500k which is essentially the same thing. http://smedia.ust.hk/james/projects/deepart_ana.html

Their dataset is also available for download.

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Re:Nearly 1,000 Paintings and Drawings by Vincent van Gogh D... by xiao_haozi on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @03:25PM (#17501291)

I didn't see any, but you could stitch them together, e.g. https://vangoghmuseum-assetserver.appspot.com/tiles?id=56466...

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Re:Nearly 1,000 Paintings and Drawings by Vincent van Gogh D... by rococode on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @01:52PM (#17500530)

We scraped the site. The website takes a pagesize parameter that doesn't seem to have a limit so we loaded all the images in one page and just downloaded them all.

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Re:Nearly 1,000 Paintings and Drawings by Vincent van Gogh D... by asdsa5325 on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @06:03PM (#17502601)

Sounds like a cool project!

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