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image recognition meets Art UK
Most of us have enjoyed a game of spot the difference, the popular puzzle for keen-eyed observers to compare a pair of near-identical pictures for differences. At Art UK we have had the opportunity to play on a grand scale, across thousands of portraits spanning the centuries and artistic styles, in order to discover duplicate paintings in our collection. Surely a task to challenge anyone who ‘never forgets a face’, but we did, however, have considerable help from image recognition software and the expertise of scientists at the University of Oxford.
Artworks can be duplicated erroneously on the Art UK website, most commonly when a painting from one public collection is on loan to another. In this case, we can usually determine its travels from any available acquisition information. Similarly, there are instances where a painting is jointly purchased by two collections, resulting in two separate records on Art UK acknowledging this shared ownership.Double vision: image rect UK Art UK
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