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The truth is the most authentic restoration would be to resurrect the artis and have them restore it. But even then, the paint changes over time. Conservation is possible but restoration is not, unless one is just interested in the visual record and communication pertaining to it. This is a good idea tho. It is better than a print in a book, since it is to scale. Artworks that are all together lost for the purpose of public viewing can now be appreciated. Thankyou.
As someone who has restored oils paintings, motion film and photographs, I can appreciate the ingenuity in this engineer’s invention. However, I see motion film is better suited to digital developments, rather than easel painting. Slowing a painting’s deterioration, not to mention retouching, is a manual labour of love. I see no better way to do this work.
random comment that says you should contact another youtuber, as a way to downplay your own work.
Wow!
Very nice. It is great to see young talent leading the charge on new technology. You are the future.
Why should some damage NOT be corrected..because it is not possible or,intentiomal by the artist? Isnt anyone else wondering this?
great
How interesting you should get in touch with Julian Baumgarner he restoes paintings in Chicago, and is up to date with most anything to do with restoring art. A great job and enjoyed it.
Disgusting AI.
but the reintegration of the missing areas of color must be done only AFTER cleaning from any old paint, dirt, etc. Does he also take care of this?
So glad I retired from a creative career before I had to experience ai destroying artistic peoples jobs
Restoration will soon be a thing of a past, only conservation will occur because a laser will project onto the picture, what it would look like restored.
MAGNIFIQUE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Seeking and seeking out.
I sought to, and I set out to, I sought but I did not seek out to find, but to seek what I found. I sought out the truth, and though I thought I sought out to find, I sought to find forsooth.
So now it has an ugly plastic shine…
If you watch Baumgartner Restoration, you'll see that 99% of the work is stabilizing, cleaning and reframing. And cleaning comprises the bulk of that. The retouching is a very small part of the work overall and is probably the one part of the process that is actually fun. Still, this video was fascinating and I enjoyed it very much and applaud the engineer who figured out a relatively easy reversible way to do *retouching*.
When we say 'AI' what are we talking about? Variational Autoencoder? Convolutional neural net? I detest the catch all term that causes ambiguity.
It is neither conservation nor restoration… and what will happen when the "mask" needs to be taken off after a long time? More damages? Will the binding media from the film go through the existing craquelure? The film totally changes the gloss of the painting as well.
What a great contribution he has made to art.
70x faster is impressive… but what's really needed is a "peer review" process where other veteran restorers can look at the work and critique it fairly. another missing piece is any discussion of price – if this technique is meant to be a cheaper alternative for lesser works, what price range are we looking at?
Just using " Photoshop "
It’s makeup for paintings, it doesn’t restore, it is a mask. Also the lines are obvious unless the painting is at a specific angle. It’s a nice idea but I don’t see it as a long term solution.
Génial ! c'est une technique qui fera son chemin …Bravo !!!
If he's referring to generative AI, there are still ethical concerns. I take issue with him claiming the original artist 'would approve'—we simply can't know that. AI outputs are just educated guesses, so using them to restore unknown details doesn't guarantee accuracy. While it's good that the restoration is reversible, we often don’t even know the original artist let alone their style; as is the case of the painting he used, making it problematic to speak on their behalf. No one has any idea who created it.
Amazing! I can't thank you more you have engineered a genius solution to restore damaged arts that will be now available to the world, its a true homage to the great artists in the best way by us
How is the white backing layer vanished? How is the printer output applied to the original print?
Excellent work.
Cross-over episode with Baumgartner Restoration?
Matching colors is great and all, but the texture of the restoration paint as well as the 3d nature of brush strokes is also important. Even if the color matches, you can tell when an area has been restored if it is flat and smooth compared to the rest of the painting.
cool. thanks for getting this going.
My first thought was of the woman in Spain who tried to fix Jesus' face in that fresco in 2012.
I think it needs a little bit more work, or the actual before and after needs to be a little bit more clear, because it kind of looks in some images it's pretty seamless but in others, not so much. I think some of the images we seen played with lighting a little bit to distort the image to make it seem a little bit more clear, if you have art you know. Or trying to diffuse a glare, you have to turn it a certain way or take a picture from a certain angle. I would tell conservators still stick with your jobs. Bank of America has been pretty generous with funding a lot of important restorations. I think the money is there, um maybe we need more conservators?
It's ethical in that it can be completely removed and the original painting restored to its previous damaged state without incurring any significant additional damage in the process, but it's unethical in the sense that AI restoration just like its manual predecessor, is just merely guessing at the original appearance of the image and then masking the original with what is essentially a fake, concealing reality with fiction. What would be better with a technology like this is to simply reproduce the restored image separately and display it alongside the unaltered original, or, maybe better still from a finite wall space perspective, just leave the originals as is in their galleries and do the whole thing digitally – let the viewer see the restored version with eg. a pair of VR goggles.
Well done.
that is so cool!
Amazing work! but I would love to actually see the result for more than few seconds… 🙂
Not to mention that he also does an exelent job at presenting the process
So proud of you kachkine! Very fascinating.