BUDA.ART: A Multimodal Content-Based Analysis and Retrieval System for Buddha Statues
This system assists Art History researchers in exploring Buddha statue archives, but it is incremental as it applies existing retrieval methods to a new domain-specific dataset.
The researchers tackled the problem of analyzing and retrieving Buddha statues by developing BUDA.ART, a multimodal system that combines CBIR and classical techniques to index an archive of 50,000 pictures, enabling mobile search and 3D analysis with a focus on facial characteristics.
We introduce BUDA.ART, a system designed to assist researchers in Art History, to explore and analyze an archive of pictures of Buddha statues. The system combines different CBIR and classical retrieval techniques to assemble 2D pictures, 3D statue scans and meta-data, that is focused on the Buddha facial characteristics. We build the system from an archive of 50,000 Buddhism pictures, identify unique Buddha statues, extract contextual information, and provide specific facial embedding to first index the archive. The system allows for mobile, on-site search, and to explore similarities of statues in the archive. In addition, we provide search visualization and 3D analysis of the statues