#digitalrestoration — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #digitalrestoration, aggregated by home.social.
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Arkeonews: Frozen but Not Forgotten: 2,500-Year-Old Tattoos of Siberian Ice Mummy Digitally Reconstructed. “Using high-resolution near-infrared imaging and 3D photogrammetry, researchers have re-examined the preserved tattoos of a 2,500-year-old Pazyryk mummy from the Altai Mountains. The tattoos, hidden beneath layers of mummified skin and centuries of degradation, are now being brought back […]
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MIT researcher Alex Kachkine developed a method to physically restore original artworks using printed, removable digital overlays. A 15th-century oil painting was repaired in just 3.5 hours—66x faster than traditional methods.
#AIinArt #DigitalRestoration #ArtConservation #Museums #CulturalHeritage #HumanitiesTech
https://news.mit.edu/2025/restoring-damaged-paintings-using-ai-generated-mask-0611 -
Alex Kachkine demonstrates the first physically-applied digital restoration of a painting using a color-accurate printed laminate mask.
5,612 damaged areas filled in just 3.5 hours — 66× faster than traditional inpainting.
The work combines engineering precision with conservation ethics, offering new hope for thousands of hidden artworks.
https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/159269
#ArtRestoration #DigitalHumanities #ConservationTech #Museums #DigitalRestoration #CulturalHeritage #AI #Nature -
The Nature article (vol. 642, pp. 343–350, 2025) presents a method to physically apply digital inpainting using a bilayer pigment film. 5,612 losses in a 15th-century painting were restored in just 3.5 hours—66 times faster than traditional methods. This technique could help bring thousands of artworks back into public view.
#DigitalRestoration #ArtConservation #Kunstgeschichte #DigitalHumanities #Nature #CulturalHeritage #Museums
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Super interesting article about digital restoration of van Goghs paintings returning the hues of non lightfast and long faded pigments. The journal has more articles on the use of pigments by van Gogh, who wrote about them extensively to his brother.
#digitalrestoration #art #pigments #arthistory #vangogh #lightfastness
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My attempt at cleaning up the video and sound on a 1956 talk show about homosexuality, which treats same-sex desire more or less as an illness. But hey, it was progress that they were discussing this then-taboo subject on 1950s TV at all.
Here are the first 2 minutes of the show. The first few seconds are the unprocessed original file, after which the picture and audio restoration begins. The video looks a bit overprocessed but the tech is slowly getting there.
(The tools used here were NeatVideo, Topaz Video AI [Iris model with manually adjusted settings], iZotope audio software, Premiere, and the voice enhancer on Adobe Podcast.)
#TalkShow #gay #homophobia #queer #LGBTQ #DigitalRestoration
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Another colour restoration of an old film frame/slide. Lots of hidden colours beneath years of red-tint! (no colours added; all original)
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I haven't done one of these colour corrections for a while. Keeps me off the streets, I suppose. No colours added; all original, hidden below the red-tint ageing.
#digitalrestoration #film