Computers can understand art like humans  Washington, September
27 (ANI): Understanding and evaluating art is not a task meant
for humans only, computers can also do it.  Computer scientists
Lior Shamir and Jane Tarakhovsky of Lawrence Technological
University in Michigan tackled the question "can machines
understand art?"   In the experiment, the researchers used
approximately1, 000 paintings of 34 well-known artists, and let
the computer algorithm analyze the similarity between them based
solely on the visual content of the paintings, and without any
human guidance.   The analysis showed that the computer was
clearly able to identify the differences between classical
realism and modern artistic styles, and automatically separated
the painters into two groups, 18 classical painters and 16
modern painters.  Inside these two broad groups the computer
identified sub-groups of painters that were part of the same
artistic movements.  For instance, the computer automatically
placed the High Renaissance artists Rap