Researchers in California have used facial recognition technology to identify a portrait that is likely Anne Boleyn, who as the second wife of King Henry VIII was Queen of England from 1533 to 1536 before being beheaded.The video computing group at the University of California in Riverside used an image of the queen from a medal in the British Museum in London to conduct a facial match – all images of her were destroyed after her death as part of propaganda efforts.The group, led by Amit Roy Chowdhury, have since found a close match with the privately owned Nidd Hall portrait, held at the Bradford Art Galleries and Museums. The potrait had long been believed to show Anne's jewellery.Speaking at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in San Jose this month, Roy-Chowdhury described his program's attempts to identify characters in a collection of 57 paintings. The program found 14 matches, and was undecided on the identity of 26 people. The rest were not the characters Roy-Chowdhury had programmed the computer to look for.Last year, Roy-Chowdhury's team also used facial recognition software to uncover that a bust of King Tutankhamun found in one of his coffins was more likely the face of Nefertitti, Tut's step-mother.
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