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  • Features combination for art authentication studies: brushstroke and materials analysis of Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso
    Publication . Montagner, Cristina; Jesus, Rui; Correia, Nuno; Vilarigues, Márcia; Macedo, Rita; Melo, Maria João
    This work presents a tool to support authentication studies of paintings attributed to the modernist Portuguese artist Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso (1887-1918). The strategy adopted was to quantify and combine the information extracted from the analysis of the brushstroke with information on the pigments present in the paintings. The brushstroke analysis was performed combining Gabor filter and Scale Invariant Feature Transform. Hyperspectral imaging and elemental analysis were used to compare the materials in the painting with those present in a database of oil paint tubes used by the artist. The outputs of the tool are a quantitative indicator for authenticity, and a mapping image that indicates the areas where materials not coherent with Amadeo's palette were detected, if any. This output is a simple and effective way of assessing the results of the system. The method was tested in twelve paintings obtaining promising results.
  • Authentication of Art: assessing the performance of a machine learning based authentication method
    Publication . Chen, Ailin; Jesus, Rui; Vilarigues, Márcia
    This paper compares the test results generated by applying the method for the authentication of paintings by Portuguese artist Amadeo de Souza Car-doso in the interest of exploring the generalisation properties of the algorithm on other artists or genres. This sets the base for the method to be improved and de-veloped accordingly in future applications for a broader audience in a wider set-ting. The obtained results show that the classifier obtained from the algorithm using paintings appears not to be directly applicable to drawings of the same art-ist. When the classifier is retrained for a different genre like Chinese paintings or artists like van Gogh, the algorithm appears to perform as well as the classifier on Amadeo paintings, i.e. the algorithm is sufficient for the classification of a specific type of artist or genre.