we can now see what people from history really looked like,
through
this generative adversarial network (GAN) which he trained with thousands of
photographs, freelance photographer Bas Uterwijk is able to create realistic
images of historical figures using paintings and statues of them for reference,
dubbed the A.I. generated portraits, this series of images by Bas Uterwijk has
been created with artbreeder, an AI software that spots common facial features
and qualities from the paintings and statues. The program throws different
options for Uterwijk to pick from, who then continues with the editing of the
image. His approach is somehow artistic as he has to decide on hair and eye
color for the statues, as for the paintings, it’s a bit easier as he feeds the
AI with different images meaning that the more paintings available on the
subject, the more information the artist has to complete the job, images via bas uterwijk,
‘with queen elizabeth, there were many paintings of
her,’ said bas uterwijk to yahoo news, ‘so I uploaded 10 different images and then
created what I think is a realistic image of how her head would have looked
based on an average.’
dubbed the A.I. generated portraits, this series of
images by bas uterwijk has been created with artbreeder, a AI software that spots common facial features and qualities from the paintings
and statues, built
on banbreeder and BigGAN, artbreeder is free and freely accessible, the
results will vary according to the amount of images you upload, to see more of
uterwijk’s work, go to his Instagram account here, what an amazing transformation from a paining to a 'real' photograph.
Someone did this a while back with Mozart. They took several paintings of him and then averaged them together into this photograph.
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