This AI detects art forgeries by analysing artists brushstrokes – Fanatical Futurist by International Keynote Speaker Matthew Griffin

Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. All around the world the trade in art, both man made and machine made art, is booming, with even art made by new Artificial Intelligence (AI) programs getting in on the act after a painting by one sold for over $430,000 recently at Christies, but detecting art forgeries is still as hard and expensive as ever. At the moment, for example, art historians might bring suspect work into a lab for infrared spectroscopy, radiometric dating, gas chromatography, or a combination of tests. But now a new AI does away with all that and it can spot fakes just by looking at the strokes used to compose a piece. In a new paper, researchers from Rutgers University and the Atelier for Restoration & Research of Paintings in the Netherlands document how their AI system broke down almost 300 line drawings by Picasso, Matisse, Modigliani, and other famous artists into 80,000 individual strokes.