The Spot the Difference! project brought together the University for the Creative Arts and the University of Surrey in a new partnership focusing on visual plagiarism. The project was led by the Visual Arts Data Service (VADS) based at the University for the Creative Arts, and piloted the use of visual search tools developed by the Centre for Vision, Speech, and Signal Processing (CVSSP) at the University of Surrey, and tested their application to learning and teaching in the arts, and specifically tested their application to the issue of visual plagiarism.

The project had two main outputs. Firstly, the project collated the existing knowledge, experience, and perceptions of academics, learning support staff, and senior managers in the UK arts education sector surrounding the issues, nature, and extent of visual plagiarism. Secondly, the project developed a visual search demonstrator utilising technologies developed by the CVSSP at University of Surrey.

• http://www.vads.ac.uk/spot