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Tuesday, January 05, 2010

Spotting Art Fakes

Daniel Rockmore of Dartmouth College in the US and his colleagues have shown a straightforward method known as sparse coding to distinguish artistic fakes and imitations. The work was reported in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. I wonder whether this technique could be applied in other fields such gem identification and gem treatments.

Useful links:
www.pnas.org
www.dartmouth.edu

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