“Before the advent
of photography, portraits were depictions of people who were
important in their own worlds”. “But, as a walk through almost
any major museum will show a large number of these unidentified
portraits from before the 19th century. Many of them have lost the
great works of art - identities of their subjects through the
fortunes of time.”
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| Portrait Arts |
Visual art is highly
subjective and biometric identification is absolutely not, but
researchers are working to develop facial recognition software that
can identify faces in ancient paintings and sculptures.
Set to revolutionize
museum curation and preservation, preliminary tests have shown the
software can correctly identify Lorenzo de’ Medici from his death
mask, and should also be able to interpret different styles from
various artists portraying the same person.
In the second phase
of the project, the team will build on initial successes to study the
applicability of automated face-recognition technologies for analysing portraits under different paradigms, including artist and
period styles.
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