vango project

Van GoYour personal art curator

Zuzanna Klyszejko

Problem When you’re visiting a new place your time is limited

There is too much to see

You need to make a choice

If a visitor wants to see only landscapes and plants, there should be a way to choose a subset of museum

objects that makes the most of their time

”This painting was said by him to have been inspired by

the work of Li Cheng, a tenth-century landscape artist.

Its spare, rather dry brushwork again repeats the

deliberately simple, austere quality that is the feature

of many so-called literati paintings. Hanging scroll.

Landscape. Bare trees in winter, with reference to Li

Cheng (919-67) and a river. Painted in a very dry style.

Inscriptions and seals. Ink on paper.”

Scraped 100 000 curatorial descriptions of paintings and drawings from British Museum’s database

”this painting be say by him to have be inspire by the work of li cheng , a tenth - century landscape artist . its spare , rather dry brushwork again repeat the deliberately simple , austere quality that be the feature of many so - call literati painting . hang scroll . landscape . bare tree in winter , with reference to li cheng ( 919 - 67 ) and a river . paint in a very dry style . inscription and seal . ink on paper.”

Tokenizing and Lemmatizing

Scraped 100 000 curatorial descriptions of paintings and drawings from British Museum’s database

Tokenizing and Lemmatizing

Count Vectorizer + TFIDF

Scraped 100 000 curatorial descriptions of paintings and drawings from British Museum’s database

Tokenizing and Lemmatizing

Count Vectorizer + TFIDF

Latent Semantic Analysis (PCA)

Scraped 100 000 curatorial descriptions of paintings and drawings from British Museum’s database

Tokenizing and Lemmatizing

Count Vectorizer + TFIDF

Latent Semantic Analysis (PCA)

Cosine similarity

Scraped 100 000 curatorial descriptions of paintings and drawings from British Museum’s database

How does it work in practice? Demo

Problem: Validation

Problem: Validation

Landscapehut

lake

cliff

mountainamid

bridge

cattledistance

Landscape

hut

tree

lake river

cliff

mountainamid

bridge cattle

bank

distance

stream

Landscape

boat

fish

wind

windmill

Landscape

hut

lake river

cliff

mountainamid

bridge cattle

distance

Landscape

hut

tree

stream

lake river

cliff

mountainamid

bridge cattle

bank

distance

Landscape

boat

fish

wind

windmill

hut

tree

stream

lake river

cliff

mountainamid

bridge cattle

bank

distance

boat

fish

wind

windmill

Landscape Landscape

treeriver

cliff

mountain

cattle

bank

JACCARD INDEX

Dataset 1

Train a model

Dataset 2

Train a model

Dataset 3

Train a model

K-fold cross validation to verify the model using Jaccard index

“landscape”

About me

PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience (NYU)

VanGo web app: vango.hopto.org

Zuzanna Klyszejko