Art experts could soon be
replaced by computers as scientists of Lawrence Technological University in
Detroit have developed software that can identify, evaluate and attribute works
of art. Computer scientists created the software that focuses on 4,000 numerical
image descriptors and analyzes form, texture, and visual content of the
paintings without any human guidance. The program has managed to precisely
attribute around 1000 paintings of 18 modern and 16 classical painters with no
mistakes.
The computer automatically
divided the 34 well-known painters into groups showing that it s able to
identify painters of the same artistic movements. It placed the High
Renaissance artists Raphael, Leonardo Da Vinci, and Michelangelo close to each
other. Then separated the Baroque painters like Vermeer, Rubens and Rembrandt.
Van Dyke, Durer and Bruegel were united into another group. Similarly it
separated Gauguin and Cézanne and united Salvador Dali, Max Ernst, and Giorgio
de Chirico into one group.
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