Computerized Face Recognition in Renaissance Portrait Art: A quantitative measure for identifying uncertain subjects in ancient portraits

Srinivasan, Ramya; Rudolph, Conrad; Roy-Chowdhury, Amit K.

doi:10.1109/msp.2015.2410783

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“…Portrait Feature Space (PFS) was utilized to measure the similarities between pairs of Renaissance portraits that are known to represent the same or different subjects. Using statistical hypothesis tests, the researchers analysed portraits where the identities were uncertain and explained the significance of the results from an art historian's perspective [22]. Gupta et al 2018, made significant improvements over baselines and state-of-the-art methods on various examples that were identified by art historians as being very controversial.…”

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Proto-Early Renaissance Depictions, Iconographic Analysis and Computerised Facial Similarity Assessment Connections: The 16th Century Mural Paintings of St. Leocadia Church (Chaves, North of Portugal)

Salavessa,

Aranha,

Moreira

et al. 2024

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The aim of this paper is to analyse facial similarity and apply it to identify the individuals depicted in the mural paintings of the apse of St. Leocadia Church, located in Chaves Municipality (North of Portugal), which were painted during the first quarter of the 16th century. This study also compares the portraits of this mural paintings with the oil paintings by the Proto-Renaissance Portuguese painter Nuno Gonçalves. Through this research, the feasibility of face recognition technology is explored to answer many ambiguities about Manueline stylistic identity and iconography. Additionally, it aims to associate historical events, artistic discoveries, and the expansion of portraiture as propaganda of power during the Portuguese Proto-Renaissance and Early Renaissance. On the other hand, it focuses on the prevalence of the religious and devotional over the sacred in Manueline painting. A proposal was made to identify the characters that are fundamental to the meaning of the mural paintings. An experiment was conducted on seven characters from the paintings at St. Leocadia Church, which were then compared to Nuno Gonçalves’ portraits. Facial similarity analysis was conducted on the faces portrayed in the Panels of St. Vincent, a remarkable portrait gallery from 15th-century Portugal, which has been the subject of national and international research for 130 years. Other paintings that were analysed were the oil paintings of St. Peter and St. Paul and of Infanta St. Joana, which were created by the same Quattrocento master. The purpose of the mural paintings of St. Leocadia Church could be catechetical in nature or related to the ritual practices of royal ancestor worship in royal portrait apses of the churches. It could also be associated with the Portuguese maritime expansion and the macro-imperial ideology of D. Manuel I.

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Section: Literature Review On Facial Similarity Assessmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Proto-Early Renaissance Depictions, Iconographic Analysis and Computerised Facial Similarity Assessment Connections: The 16th Century Mural Paintings of St. Leocadia Church (Chaves, North of Portugal)

Salavessa,

Aranha,

Moreira

et al. 2024

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“…It was used the Portrait Feature Space (PFS) to quantitative measures of similarities between Renaissance portrait pairs known to represent same/different sitters. Through statistical hypothesis tests were analyze uncertain portraits against known identities and explain the significance of the results from an art historian's perspective [12]. Gupta and alli, in 2018, developed significant improvement over baselines and state-of-art methods on several examples which are identified by art historians as being very controversial.…”

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Proto/Early Renaissance Depictions, Iconographic Analysis and Computerised Face Recognition Connections: 16th Century Frescoes of St. Leocadia Church (Chaves, North of Portugal)

Salavessa,

Aranha,

Moreira

et al. 2023

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The content of this paper is a very significant contribution to the heritage regional reconstruction and conservation interventions. The results about the iconographic analysis of the Early-Renaissance frescoes of St. Leocadia Church, in Chaves, in the north-east of Portugal, were presented for the first time. This paper aims to study facial similarity analysis applied to identification of the personages represented in the 1511-1513 mural paintings of the apse of St. Leocadia Church, in Chaves Municipality (North of Portugal) and those ones in the oil paintings by the Proto-Renaissance Portuguese painter Nuno Gonçalves. In this work, it was explored the feasibility of face recognition technologies in answering many ambiguities concerning Manueline stylistic identity and iconography. A proposal was made to identify the characters, fundamental to the meaning of the frescoes. It has been experimentally proved on 7 characters of St. Leocadia Church’s paintings, in comparison with the referred old master portraits. It was used an in-house trained deep face recognition model to extract facial features from images of 15th and 16th century portraits to compare their degree of similarity. It was undertaken facial similarity analysis of the faces in the formidable portrait gallery of the 15th century Portuguese society represented in the Panels of St. Vicent, which has been subject of national and international research for 130 years. On the other, in the oil painting of St. Peter and St. Paul and Infanta St. Joana, of the same old master. The iconographic interpretation of the mural paintings of St. Leocadia, based in the deep facial features of the images, is plausible: a catechetical purpose; the ritual practices of royal ancestor worship in royal portrait apses of the churches; the Portuguese maritime expansion and the macro-imperial ideology of D. Manuel I.

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A comprehensive survey on object detection in Visual Art: taxonomy and challenge

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Mzoughi

Bigand

et al. 2023

Multimed Tools Appl

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Computerized Face Recognition in Renaissance Portrait Art: A quantitative measure for identifying uncertain subjects in ancient portraits

Cited by 13 publications

References 22 publications

Proto-Early Renaissance Depictions, Iconographic Analysis and Computerised Facial Similarity Assessment Connections: The 16th Century Mural Paintings of St. Leocadia Church (Chaves, North of Portugal)

Proto-Early Renaissance Depictions, Iconographic Analysis and Computerised Facial Similarity Assessment Connections: The 16th Century Mural Paintings of St. Leocadia Church (Chaves, North of Portugal)

Proto/Early Renaissance Depictions, Iconographic Analysis and Computerised Face Recognition Connections: 16th Century Frescoes of St. Leocadia Church (Chaves, North of Portugal)

A comprehensive survey on object detection in Visual Art: taxonomy and challenge

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