  Although computer scientists are generally familiar with the achievements of
computer vision technology in art history, these accomplishments are little
known and often misunderstood by scholars in the humanities. To clarify the
parameters of this seeming disjuncture, we have addressed the concerns that one
example of the digitization of the humanities poses on social, philosophical,
and practical levels. In support of our assessment of the perceptions held by
computer scientists and art historians about the use of computer vision
technology to examine art, we based our interpretations on two surveys that
were distributed in August 2014. In this paper, the development of these
surveys and their results are discussed in the context of the major
philosophical conclusions of our research in this area to date.
