Jan 04 2010
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Computer Method Finds Fake Art (via BBC News)
A simple method to distinguish artistic fakes and imitations has been demonstrated by researchers. The approach, known as “sparse coding”, builds a virtual library of an artist’s works and breaks them down into the simplest possible visual elements. Verifiable works by that artist can be rebuilt using varying proportions of those simple elements, while imitators’ works cannot….
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