MIT student prints AI polymer masks to restore paintings in hours #ArtTuesday

Image depicting restoration process, middle panel showing damage via MIT Courtesy of the researchers

 

By printing a transparent mask over the art, this researcher was able to restore painting without permanently altering them. Via Ars Technica:

MIT graduate student Alex Kachkine once spent nine months meticulously restoring a damaged baroque Italian painting, which left him plenty of time to wonder if technology could speed things up. Last week, MIT News announced his solution: a technique that uses AI-generated polymer films to physically restore damaged paintings in hours rather than months. The research appears in Nature.

Learn more! and via MIT News: Have a damaged painting? Restore it in just hours with an AI-generated “mask”

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