Art attribution: AI enters the fray

Abstract

[...]police in the small Ligurian town of Castelnuovo Magra had been tipped off, and swapped The Crucifixion, valued at €3 million (uS$3.3 million), for a cheap copy. In 2016, she initiated an unusual collaboration with artificial intelligence (AI) researchers in France and the United States, deploying state-of-the-art computer vision to help in analysing similarities and tracing them from work to work. Other art historians are also seeing opportunities in harnessing machine learning to provide empirical support for theories and ideas previously confined to the subjective eyes of the beholders.