{"id":3923,"date":"2012-04-28T17:18:33","date_gmt":"2012-04-28T22:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3923"},"modified":"2012-04-28T17:18:33","modified_gmt":"2012-04-28T22:18:33","slug":"ucr-today-scholars-to-apply-facial-recognition-software-to-unidentified-portrait-subjects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3923","title":{"rendered":"UCR Today: Scholars to Apply Facial Recognition Software to Unidentified Portrait Subjects"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>RIVERSIDE, Calif. \u2014 Anyone who has admired centuries-old sculptures and portraits displayed in museums and galleries around the world at some point has asked one question: Who is that?<\/p>\n<p>Three University of California, Riverside scholars have launched a research project to test \u2014 for the first time \u2014 the use of facial recognition software to help identify these unknown subjects of portrait art, a project that ultimately may enrich the understanding of European political, social and religious history.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/ucrtoday.ucr.edu\/5453\">UCR Today: Scholars to Apply Facial Recognition Software to Unidentified Portrait Subjects<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAlmost every portrait painted before the 19th century was of a person of some importance,\u201d Rudolph explained. \u201cAs families fell on hard times, many of these portraits were sold and the identities of these subjects were lost. The question we hope to answer is, can we restore these identities?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIVERSIDE, Calif. \u2014 Anyone who has admired centuries-old sculptures and portraits displayed in museums and galleries around the world at some point has asked one question: Who is that? Three University of California, Riverside scholars have launched a research project &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3923\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[100],"class_list":["post-3923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming","tag-interesting-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3924,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923\/revisions\/3924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}