Old masters, new methods: The tech transforming art restoration

AI method restored 57,000 hues in just over 3 hours, a new method reproduced over 57,000 hues in just over 3 hours when tested on a heavily damaged 15th-century oil painting.

Is about 66 times faster than conventional inpainting, the approach was reported to be about 66 times faster than conventional inpainting.

Alex Kachkine developed the removable laminate mask method, the method was developed by Alex Kachkine at MIT and published in Nature.

Removable laminate mask is printed from a digital restoration and placed over the original painting, the digitally restored image is printed onto an extremely thin polymer film that serves as a removable laminate mask placed over the painting.

Alex Kachkine said the digital record lets future workers understand past interventions, kachkine said a digital record of the mask allows future conservators to understand what was done to the painting.