4 papers
Art Beyond Semantics: Sheaf-Informed Contrastive Learning for Multi-Relational Representations
Ludovica Schaerf, Antonio Purificato, Piera Riccio +2
Understanding a painting is never a single act. Art historians may analyze the same work through concepts of style, iconography, or historical context, dimensions that are not inte…
I Was Scrolling and Then I Saw a Pregnant Strawberry
Piera Riccio
AI minidramas (also known as fruit dramas) are short, algorithmically distributed generative AI video series featuring anthropomorphized characters that have recently emerged as a…
Gender Artifacts from Art History to Text-to-Image Generation
Piera Riccio, Miriam Doh, Benedikt Höltgen +2
Artistic styles are rooted in specific socio-historical contexts that encode social hierarchies, including distinct constructions of gender. Yet in AI research, style has long been…
ImageSet2Text: Describing Sets of Images through Text
Piera Riccio, Francesco Galati, Kajetan Schweighofer +2
In the era of large-scale visual data, understanding collections of images is a challenging yet important task. To this end, we introduce ImageSet2Text, a novel method to automatic…