Visual Question Answering for Cultural Heritage

Understand

Technology and the fruition of cultural heritage are becoming increasingly more entwined, especially with the advent of smart audio guides, virtual and augmented reality, and interactive installations.

• Machine learning and computer vision are important components of this ongoing integration, enabling new interaction modalities between user and museum.
• Nonetheless, the most frequent way of interacting with paintings and statues still remains taking pictures.
• Yet images alone can only convey the aesthetics of the artwork, lacking is information which is often required to fully understand and appreciate it.