A digital technique for art authentication

作者：Lyu S; Rockmore D; Farid H^*

来源：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2004, 101(49): 17006-17010.

DOI：10.1073/pnas.0406398101

We describe a computational technique for authenticating works of art, specifically paintings and drawings, from high-resolution digital scans of the original works. This approach builds a statistical model of an artist from the scans of a set of authenticated works against which new works then are compared. The statistical model consists of first- and higher-order wavelet statistics. We show preliminary results from our analysis of 13 drawings that at various times have been attributed to Pieter Bruegel the Elder; these results confirm expert authentications. We also apply these techniques to the problem of determining the number of artists that may have contributed to a painting attributed to Pietro Perugino and again achieve an analysis agreeing with expert opinion.

• 出版日期2004-12-7