Da vinci's mona lisa: a modern look at a timeless classic

Authors:
Dennis Lin;Jilin Tu;Shyamsundar Rajaram;Zhenqiu Zhang;Thomas Huang
Affiliations:
Beckman Institute, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL;Beckman Institute, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL;Beckman Institute, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL;Beckman Institute, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL;Beckman Institute, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL
Venue:
MLMI'06 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction
Year:
2006

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Active shape models—their training and application

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

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There has been some controversy over the true subject portrayed in Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa. In particular, there are suggestions that the painting is in fact a self-portrait. In this paper, we analyze the shapes of the features in the Mona Lisa and a known self-portrait of Leonardo da Vinci using active shape models. We conclude that the two faces have very distinct features and that they appear to be of different genders.