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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family:
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rgb(227, 108, 10);">Princeton University Physics Department
Colloquium</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Computer
Vision and Optics in the Study of Fine Art</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Speaker:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 22pt; font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif";">David Stork
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif";">Columbia
University</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Thursday,
February 10, 2011</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Jadwin Hall
A10</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">4:30 pm – 5:30
pm</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">New
rigorous computer vision algorithms have shed light on a
number of problems and controversies in the history and
interpretation of fine art. Rigorous illumination estimation
and shape-from-shading methods can reveal in new ways the
accuracy and the working methods of masters such as Vermeer,
Georges da la Tour and Caravaggio, including claims they
traced projected images. Computer methods can dewarp the
images depicted in convex mirrors depicted in paintings such
as Johannes van Eyck’s
<i>Arnolfini portrait </i>and Parmigianino’s <i>Self
portrait in a convex mirror </i>
to reveal new views into artists’ studios and shed light on
their working methods. This colloquium will explore how
rigorous computer image analysis and optical analysis of art
is changing our understanding of paintings and drawings, also
featuring works by Vermeer, Lotto, Memling, and several
others. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif";">Host: Paul
Steinhardt<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif";">Tea in 218
Jadwin Hall at 4 p.m.</span><span style="font-size: 18pt;
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