14 April 2021, 11:02 pm EDT By
Time-Travel Rephotography has debuted a new way to restore images, despite being hundreds of years old that use artificial intelligence (AI) to determine skin color and lighting when it was taken. Most photo restoration tools have been close approximating the skin color of an image, which produces inaccurate results compared to the new technology.
(Photo : Photo by Alexander Gardner/Getty Images) Abraham Lincoln, (1809 - 1865), the 16th President of the United States of America.
Photo and video restorations can bring back the joy and beauty of old memories, especially as people are known to be reminiscent of the past events that have occurred in their lifetime. May it be historically relevant or personal, restorations bring a massive help in letting people experience it during the modern era, using technology.
New Photo Colourising Process Factors In How Skin Reacts to Light For Incredibly Lifelike Results
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Film stocks from a century ago weren’t just limited to only capturing details in black and white; they could only capture a limited band of the colour spectrum, resulting in images of famous individuals that didn’t accurately represent how they actually looked. So a new approach to colourisation using AI finally takes that into account, resulting in eerily lifelike photos that look like they were snapped with a modern camera.
Film stocks from a century ago weren’t just limited to only capturing details in black and white; they could only capture a limited band of the color spectrum, resulting in images of famous individuals that didn’t accurately represent how they actually looked. So a new approach to colorization using AI finally takes that into account, resulting in eerily lifelike photos that look like they were snapped with a modern camera.
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We’ve all seen old black and white photos of Abraham Lincoln that are dirty, noisy, and feature a shallow depth of field that only puts part of his portrait in focus. The low-quality images are the result of the limited capabilities of cameras and lenses at the time, but there was another problem at play that resulted in Lincoln looking more wrinkled with skin that appeared to be in desperate need of a moisturizer.