Using Computers To Weed Out Art Fakes

jackelfish writes "Reminiscent of handwriting analysis software used in the television series CSI, computers are now being used to evaluate the authenticity of works of art without an expert ever setting eyes on it. The technique identifies the artist by analyzing their characteristic brush or pen strokes from high resolution scans of previously authenticated works. Much like a fingerprint, these characteristics can then be compared to a work in question. The method, to be published in an upcoming issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences promises to reduce the subjectivity of art assessments made by human experts."

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Good for Stopping Chinese Forgery of USA Money

[Anonymous Coward]

This technology will prove to be useful for stopping the forgery of American money, particularly the $20 bill. The Chinese are notorious for generating millions of dollars of copies of American $20 bills and $100 bills. The forgeries are quite good and are devastating to the American economy.

Why are forgeries devastating? They bloat the money supply and cheapen the funds that Americans have saved in their 401Ks.

This new technology for recognizing fake paintings will put an end to Chinese forgery. Awesome.

Good for Stopping Chinese Forgery of USA Money

[Anonymous Coward]

This technology will prove to be useful for stopping the forgery of American money, particularly the $20 bill. The Chinese are notorious for generating millions of dollars of copies of American $20 bills and $100 bills . The forgeries are quite good and are devastating to the American economy.

Why are forgeries devastating? They bloat the money supply and cheapen the funds that Americans have saved in their 401Ks.

This new technology for recognizing fake paintings will put an end to Chinese forgery. Awesome.

Is it live or Is it Memorex?

[Anonymous Coward]

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CARBON DATING??

[Anonymous Coward]

You mean the carbon dating that can't place dinosaur fossils between anything but the widest expanses of time (hundreds of millions of years apart), aren't able to reproduce the same results using the same fossils under the same conditions, and aren't able to place identical dinosaur fossils within the same biological period?

Yeah, that's something that should be relied on heavily...

another security breach

[Anonymous Coward]

Sun recently experienced an all encompassing attack on their servers and are afraid to admit the real level of damage that has been unleashed on their network worldwide. The CEO at Sun Microsystems was pooing his pants when he found out a child with the mental capacity of a dead monkey on heat, hacked their servers with a Barbie Notebook and a USB cable. Apparently an errant computer programmer brought in his four year old son and had said he could borrow his sisters Barbie Notebook, just dont drop it. He took his son into work and left him alone for approximately 12 minutes, which was long enough for the child to gain root access to the main NIS server at Sun. Needless to say, deleting the NIS database caused a few issues at Sun, especially as the child then proceeded to replicate the removed data worldwide and managed to convince the backup units they were no longer required and should reset to factory defaults and wipe all existing tapes. The Barbie Notebook in question is currently being held by detectives at the local police centre as they believe someone else has masterminded this piece of work and are not discounting outside interference from Mattel or alien life forms from a distant galaxy and are thus far stumped by the notebooks ability to serve coffee and kill flies. The child who performed this marvel of modern hacking was summarily executed and burnt to powder and the programmer is currently being electrified by the left eyeball until he confesses his sins. If you wish to read more, go to the Sun Microsystems website, where you will find nothing on this article, or alternatively do a Google search and youll likely find nothing there either, but it might be worth a laugh.