Authenticating old paintings with software

Can computers do a better job than humans at telling authentic works of art from forgeries? Mathematician Dan Rockmore thinks it's possible. At ZDNet's Emerging Technology Trends blog has an interesting article about Rockmore's work at Dartmouth, where he's developed software that makes statistical comparisons of works of art to determine which were painted by the greats and which were not. Rockmore's software can even tell when a particular painting was painted by more than one artist, such as in the case of a master painting the figures and an apprentice finishing the backgrounds.

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