21 November 2012: Seeing, knowing, recognizing. Protocols of vision, between science, art and life.

Seminar organized by Ugo Fracassa

Participants: Michele Rucci (Boston University), Lucia Foglia (McGill University) and Ugo Fracassa (University of Roma Tre)
Chair: Prof. Roberto Maragliano (University Roma Tre)

Wednesday, November 21st, 2012, at 3 p.m.
Room Ignazio Ambrogio, Faculty of Humanities,
Department of Comparative Literature, University of Roma Tre

PDF Presentation of Ugo Fracassa

External Resources

The video Search for “The Afghan Girl” produced by the National Geographic in 2002:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Uw0JukBGmk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Reh3k-Ibu_0&NR=1&feature=endscreen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=-Bjftc2Bg3Q&feature=endscreen

Nat Geo’s site on the same topic:

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2002/04/afghan-girl/index-text

“Iris recognition” from prof .Daugman’s site (Cambridge University):

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~jgd1000/csvt.pdf

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~jgd1000/afghan.html

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~jgd1000/math.html

Scientific contrastive analysis of Isleworth’s Mona Lisa and DaVinci’s La Gioconda:
http://monalisa.org/category/physical-and-scientific-examinations/