Digital Art Forensics

Dartmouth Technical Report TR2003-466

	Siwei Lyu
	Daniel Rockmore
	Hany Farid

Date: June 2003

URL (PDF): <http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/TR2003-466.pdf> (244KB)

Abstract:
 We describe a computational technique for digitally authenticating
 works of art. This approach builds statistical models of an artist
 from a set of authenticated works. Additional works are then
 authenticated against this model. The statistical model consists of
 first- and higher-order wavelet statistics. We show preliminary
 results from our analysis of thirteen drawings by Pieter Bruegel the
 Elder. We also present preliminary results showing how these
 techniques may be applicable to determining how many hands contributed
 to a single painting.