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.
Check out the hyper-realistic photos over at DesignBoom.
Now that’s amazing.
(Image Credit: Bas Uterwijk/ DesignBoom)
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dang thats actually really good
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