Archive for December 16th, 2005

Computer software decodes the Mona Lisa smile…

Friday, December 16th, 2005

CNN.com posted a story today that describes computer-based emotion recognition software that was used to analyze the famous smile of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa painting. The story refers to a recent British weekly journal, “New Scientist“, report about the software developed by Nicu Sebe (University of Amsterdam) and researchers at the Beckman Institute, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.  The software examines key facial features (curvature of the […]


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