FACES: Faces, Art, and Computerized Evaluation Systems, Phase II

FAIN: HD-51735-13

Regents of the University of California, Riverside (Riverside, CA 92521-0001)
Conrad Rudolph (Project Director: October 2012 to July 2015)

The refinement of additional techniques for using facial recognition software to help with the identification of human subjects in portraiture for art historical research.

Before the advent of photography, portraits were, almost by definition, depictions of people who were important in their own worlds. But, as a walk through almost any major museum will show, a large number of these unidentified portraits from before the nineteenth century--many of them great works of art--have lost the identities of their subjects through the fortunes of time. Traditionally, identification of many of these portraits has been limited to often quite variable personal opinion. FACES (Faces, Art, and Computerized Evaluation Systems) proposes to establish the initial potential of face recognition technology to this highly subjective aspect of art history while at the same time retaining the human eye as the final arbiter.

Associated Products

Quantitative Modeling of Artists Styles in Renaissance Face Portraiture (Article)
Title: Quantitative Modeling of Artists Styles in Renaissance Face Portraiture
Author: Jeanette Kohl
Author: Ramya Srinivasan
Author: Amit Roy-Chowdhury
Author: Conrad Rudolph
Abstract: Application of face recognition technology to works of portrait art.
Year: 2013
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Second International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing (2013) 94-101

Recognizing the Royals--Leveraging Computerized Face Recognition to Identify Subjects in Ancient Artworks (Article)
Title: Recognizing the Royals--Leveraging Computerized Face Recognition to Identify Subjects in Ancient Artworks
Author: Ramya Srinivasan
Author: Amit Roy-Chowdhury
Author: Conrad Rudolph
Author: Jeanette Kohl
Abstract: Application of face recognition technology to works of portrait art.
Year: 2013
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: ACM International Conference on Multimedia (2013) 581-584

Computerized Face Recognition in Renaissance Portrait Art (Article)
Title: Computerized Face Recognition in Renaissance Portrait Art
Author: Ramya Srinivasan
Author: Conrad Rudolph
Author: Amit Roy-Chowdhury
Abstract: Application of face recognition technology to works of portrait art.
Year: 2015
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Signal Processing Magazine, Special Issue (forthcoming July 2015)

An Analysis of Face Portraiture: Feature Selection and Identification (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: An Analysis of Face Portraiture: Feature Selection and Identification
Author: Amit Roy-Chowdhury
Abstract: An Analysis of Face Portraiture: Feature Selection and Identification
Date: 2/14/15
Conference Name: American Association for the Advancement of Science; San Jose, California

FACES: Faces, Art, and Computerized Evaluation Systems (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: FACES: Faces, Art, and Computerized Evaluation Systems
Author: Conrad Rudolph
Abstract: FACES: Faces, Art, and Computerized Evaluation Systems
Date: 6/2/15
Conference Name: The History of Emotions; University of Melbourne, Australia

FACES: Faces, Art, and Computerized Evaluation Systems (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: FACES: Faces, Art, and Computerized Evaluation Systems
Author: Conrad Rudolph
Abstract: FACES: Faces, Art, and Computerized Evaluation Systems
Date: 3/22/15
Conference Name: Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS)

FACES: Faces, Art, and Computerized Evaluation Systems (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: FACES: Faces, Art, and Computerized Evaluation Systems
Author: Conrad Rudolph
Abstract: FACES: Faces, Art, and Computerized Evaluation Systems
Date: 4/3/15
Conference Name: Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University

FACES: Faces, Art, and Computerized Evaluation Systems (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: FACES: Faces, Art, and Computerized Evaluation Systems
Author: Conrad Rudolph
Abstract: FACES: Faces, Art, and Computerized Evaluation Systems
Date: 2/14/15
Conference Name: College Art Association Annual Meeting; Chicago

FACES: Faces, Art, and Computerized Evaluation Systems (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: FACES: Faces, Art, and Computerized Evaluation Systems
Abstract: FACES: Faces, Art, and Computerized Evaluation Systems
Author: Conrad Rudolph
Date: 1/26/15
Location: Getty Conservation Institute, The Getty Center

Recognizing the Royals--Leveraging Computerized Face Recognition for Identifying Subjects in Ancient Artworks (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Recognizing the Royals--Leveraging Computerized Face Recognition for Identifying Subjects in Ancient Artworks
Author: Ramya Srinivasan
Abstract: Recognizing the Royals--Leveraging Computerized Face Recognition for Identifying Subjects in Ancient Artworks
Date: 10/21/15
Conference Name: 21st ACM International Conference on Multimedia, Barcelona, Spain

Quantitative Modeling of Artists' Styles in Renaissance Face Portraiture (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Quantitative Modeling of Artists' Styles in Renaissance Face Portraiture
Author: Ramya Srinivasan
Abstract: Quantitative Modeling of Artists' Styles in Renaissance Face Portraiture
Date: 9/24/13
Conference Name: 2nd International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing, Washington DC

FACES: Faces, Art, and Computerized Evaluation Systems--A Feasibility Study of the Application of Face Recognition Technology to Works of Portrait Art (Article)
Title: FACES: Faces, Art, and Computerized Evaluation Systems--A Feasibility Study of the Application of Face Recognition Technology to Works of Portrait Art
Author: Conrad Rudolph, Amit Roy-Chowdhury, Ramya Srinivasan, and Jeanette Kohl
Abstract: FACES (Faces, Art, and Computerized Evaluation Systems) is a project that, after two years of research support from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), has established proof of concept for the application of face recognition technology to works of portrait art. In the application of face recognition technology to photographed human faces, a number of difficulties are inherent in a real or perceived alteration of appearance of the face through variations in facial expression, age, angle of pose, and so on. With works of portrait art, not only do all these problems pertain, but these works also have their own additional challenges. Most notably, portrait art does not provide what might be called a photographic likeness but rather one that goes through a process of visual interpretation on the part of the artist. After establishing the initial parameters of the application of this technology, the main goal of FACES has been to test the ability of the FACES algorithm to restore lost identities to works of portrait art, something our research has shown is clearly feasible. Our work has also suggested a number of other potential applications, both using the FACES algorithm and employing basic concept of FACES in an altered form.
Year: 2016
Format: Journal
Publisher: Artibus et Historiae

Automated FACES: A proposal for the automation and dissemination of a face recognition algorithm for the identification of unidentified works of portrait art (Computer Program)
Title: Automated FACES: A proposal for the automation and dissemination of a face recognition algorithm for the identification of unidentified works of portrait art
Author: Conrad Rudolph and Amit Roy-Chowdhury
Abstract: To automate FACES and make it available through the Frick Art Reference Library of the Frick Collection in New York
Year: 2016
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