Image Recognition
A new app powered by a photographic database is used to identify looted antiquities, and Germany is creating a path to return art to Africa. Meanwhile, the black lion tamarin was removed from the critically endangered list, with a current population of about 1,800 in the wild. DANIEL BOCKWOLDT/DPA/AP/FILE Three Benin Bronzes, stolen from Africa during a British colonial expedition, are displayed at a Hamburg museum in 2018. After downloading the app, users can photograph an art piece, upload an existing image, or use descriptive terms to search Interpol’s database of lost and stolen art, which includes more than 52,000 items. If the art in question appears to match a registered piece in Interpol’s database, the app prompts users to report it.