Guy Uses Artificial Intelligence To Make Incredibly Photo-Realistic Portraits Of Famous People From History - digg.com

ztonten.blogspot.com

Bas Uterwijk, an artist and photographer based in The Netherlands, used artificial intelligence to produce some eye-popping portraits of famous historical figures.

"I have been working since about a year with the Artbreeder software," Uterwijk told Digg in an email. "First on abstract and pseudo-figurative work and later on human portraits."

"The idea began when I discovered the A.I. had no problem fixing the marks and scratches on the only authenticated portrait of Billy the Kid I fed it.
I then experimented with other historical figures of whom no or little photographic material existed: Napoleon, Julius Ceasar, Queen Elizabeth etc."

Uterwijk uploaded up to 20 different paintings into the generative adversarial network and says he was able to reconstruct images that were visual averages of the different sources "with the help of this software that is trained on thousands of human faces, towards an almost photo-realistic version."

"Getting a good likeness together with a certain level of realism and a strong appearance of the character can take hours or even days of tweaking," Uterwijk explained.

You can see his creations here:

Vincent Van Gogh

Bas Uterwijk

Bas Uterwijk

Billy The Kid

Bas Uterwijk

Jesus Of Nazareth

Bas Uterwijk

Bas Uterwijk

George Washington

Bas Uterwijk

Lady Liberty

Bas Uterwijk

Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring

Bas Uterwijk

Michelangelo's David

Bas Uterwijk

Napoleon Bonaparte

Bas Uterwijk

Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa

View this post on Instagram

I get a lot of questions why I don't properly tag my portraits. You might got here because you liked my historical figures but most faces I do are "tronies": none existing people, made up by me. This one I didn't make up. Her name is Lisa and at the moment she lives in Paris. She was created by one of the greatest artists of all time, Leonardo da Vinci. #gan #artbreeder #stylegan2 #digitalart #artificialintelligence #neuralnetworks #neuarlart #neuralartwork #machinelearning #monalisa #leonardodavinci #louvre #Renaissance

A post shared by Bas Uterwijk (@ganbrood) on Jul 10, 2020 at 8:12am PDT

"When I realized the potential of this software combined with my additional methods I was pretty certain I was on to something quite interesting but it took a while before there was any recognition outside a small circle of friends and colleagues," Uterwijk observed. "The Internet is a funny thing and it is quite overwhelming to see your work suddenly go viral globally!"

[See more of Bas Uterwijk's work on his website and Instagram]

July 29, 2020 at 11:18PM
https://ift.tt/3hPOsM0

Guy Uses Artificial Intelligence To Make Incredibly Photo-Realistic Portraits Of Famous People From History - digg.com

https://ift.tt/2YnNNt1


Bagikan Berita Ini