Preference for art: Similarity, statistics, and selling price

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7527, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Graham, Daniel J ^a   Friedenberg, Jay D ^b   McCandless, Cyrus H ^c   Rockmore, Daniel N ^a,d  

^a Dartmouth College ^*  (United States)

^b MANHATTAN COLLEGE   (United States)

^c Integrated Research   (United States)

^d Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

Aesthetics; Art preference; Artwork; Efficient coding; Human vision; Perception; Selling price; Stylometry

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE SPECTRA; CONTEXTUAL FACTORS; ECONOMIC FORCES; FIRST PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; FREE MARKET; HUMAN VISION; IF THERE ARE; IMAGE CONTENT; IMAGE STATISTICS; PREFERENCE DATA; PREFERENCE RANKING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; SELLING PRICES; SPATIAL FREQUENCY; STATISTICAL REGULARITY; STYLOMETRY; TO EFFECT; VISUAL SYSTEMS; VISUAL-PROCESSING;

ABSTRACTING; COSTS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; IMAGE CODING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SALES; STATISTICS; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS;

EID: 77949429031     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.842398     Document Type: Conference Paper

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