An Analysis of Colour Semantics in Art Images

This article presents the principal results of the Ph.D. thesis A Novel Method for Content-Based Image Retrieval in Art Image Collections Utilizing Colour Semantics by Krassimira Ivanova (Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, BAS), successfully defended at Hasselt Uni-versity in Belgium, Faculty of Science, on 15 November 2011.

The article briefly presents the results achieved by the PhD project R-1875 “Search in Art Image Collections Based on Colour Semantics”, Hasselt University, which finished successfully. The main goals of this work were to provide a detailed analysis of the colour theories, especially on existing interconnections in successful colour combinations, as well as to formalize them in order to implement automated extraction from digitized artworks.