Technology detects fake works of art
 

US researchers are harnessing digital technology to help differentiate original works of art from forgeries. Penn State scientists James Z Wang, associate professor of information sciences and technology, and Jia Li, associate professor of statistics, have published their work in the July issue of IEEE Signal Processing.

The team's findings are based on 101 high-resolution greyscale scans of paintings by Vincent van Gogh provided by the Van Gogh and Kröller-Müller museums in the Netherlands.

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