Recognizing the Style of Visual Arts via Adaptive Cross-layer Correlation

Visual arts consist of various art forms, \eg painting, sculpture, architecture,~\etc, which not only enrich our lives but also involve works related to aesthetics, history, and culture. Different eras have different artistic appeals, and the art also has characteristics of each era in terms of expression and spiritual pursuit, in which style is an important attribute to describe visual arts. In order to recognize the style of visual arts more effectively, we present an end-to-end trainable architecture to learn a deep style representation. The main component of our architecture, adaptive cross-layer correlation, is inspired by the Gram matrix based correlation calculation. Our proposed method can adaptively weight features in different spatial locations based on their intrinsic similarity. Extensive experiments on three datasets demonstrate the superiority of the proposed method over several state-of-the-art methods.