An exciting new project is bringing together academics from Oxford and Switzerland for interdisciplinary research into AI and portraiture. Professor Catriona Seth's discovery of the mistaken identities of famous childhood portraits of Marie Antoinette and her sister Maria Carolina held at the MAH led her and Dr Marie-Eve Celio to associate with specialists in forensic sciences and in AI from the Université de Lausanne/IDIAP to launch a project called INTERART. It will look into different ways of identifying sitters in historical portraits through a variety of means including AI. The research will be showcased in the upcoming exhibition which Dr Celio and Professor Seth are curating at the MAH in Geneva (from October 2026) and will lead to a series of collaborations with Professor David-Olivier Jacquet-Chiffelle and Professor Sébastien Marcel of Lausanne/IDIAP. The Loterie Romande will be supporting the first tranche of the project.
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