Computer vision unlocks new perspectives on the works of the Flemish ‘Primitives'

Gilles Simon, a specialist in computer vision and professor at the University of Lorraine, conducts his research within the Tangram (*) project team at the University of Lorraine Inria Centre and Loria laboratory. He is also passionate about pictorial art, and brings a fresh perspective to the works of the Van Eyck brothers and Rogier van der Weyden, revealing previously unseen aspects of the Flemish Renaissance painters’ mastery of perspective.