Real or Not Real? Attorney Steven Frank Uses Deep Learning to Authenticate Art - Ep. 157

Leonardo da Vinci’s portrait of Jesus, known as Salvator Mundi, was sold at a British auction for nearly half a billion dollars in 2017, making it the most expensive painting ever to change hands.

However, even art history experts were skeptical about whether the work was an original of the master rather than one of his many protégés.

Steven Frank is a partner at the law firm Morgan Lewis, specializing in intellectual property and commercial technology law. He’s also half of the husband-wife team that used convolutional neural networks to determine that this painting was likely an authentic da Vinci.

He spoke with NVIDIA AI Podcast host Noah Kravitz about working with his wife, Andrea Frank, a professional curator of art images, to authenticate artistic masterpieces with AI’s help.

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2021/12/01/steven-frank-ai-art/