Anne Boleyn's Face Unveiled by Facial Recognition

0:00On May 1st, a computer science team from the University of Bradford thinks they've cracked the mystery of Ann Bolin's face using facial recognition. On old sketches, they scan Hans Holbein, the youngest tutor collection, and spotted an unidentified woman that matches her features best, hiding in plain sight for. Centuries These sketches are prep drawings from the Royal Court, held by the Royal Collection Trust. Bolin married King Henry VIII and 1533, but got executed three years later on charges like adultery and treason. No confirmed portraits from her lifetime exist, so experts have debated her look forever, with even the famous labeled Holbein sketch questioned over. Things like hair color and dress, the team ignored old labels and let the algorithm compare facial geometry across drawings. It clustered this mystery woman with Bolin's daughter Elizabeth I and her cousins, showing family resemblances that non-relatives lacked. Lead researcher Karen Davies, who funds her history passion by cleaning, calls the result

1:02shocking. The peer-reviewed study excites them for future art sleuthing, but art historians like Bendoor Grovener's slammed as flawed rubbish, saying sketches. Ain't like modern photos? Debate rages on, but Bolin's tragic tale keeps pulling us in, proving her face real or not. Still rules the fascination game.