Employees of the Institute for Space Research (IKI) of the Russian Academy of Sciences are using artificial intelligence (AI) technology to restore the frescoes of the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Virgin in the Ferapontov Monastery, which belongs to the brush of the elders. Russian icon painter Dionysius the Wise. In this respect reports Publication “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” (RG).
Ferapontov Monastery is located in the village of Ferapontovo in the Vologda region. The frescoes here date back to 1502 and are considered the only painting by Dionysius that has survived to this day in almost its original form and composition. For more than 500 years, some of the frescoes have been damaged during alterations and damage to the cathedral.
Artificial intelligence will digitally restore lost fragments of Dionysius’ paintings. To do this, the Stable Diffusion neural network will be trained on photographs and images of multispectral capture of the frescoes.
“The neural network generally copes well with the “retouching” of not only small, but also significant losses. “He managed to restore not only the background color and repeating patterns, which were quite natural, but also parts of the figures of the saints, the direction of gaze and the position of the hands,” he said. Sciences.
They want to entrust the restoration of a painting made by a famous icon painter to artificial intelligence, since the neural network is an impartial artist. Human restorers, on the other hand, have “their own vision” and rely on it in their work.
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