{"id":503,"date":"2025-03-30T20:59:14","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T17:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbdigitalnews.com\/?p=503"},"modified":"2025-03-30T20:59:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T17:59:17","slug":"restoring-appearances-of-people-through-machine-learning-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbdigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/30\/restoring-appearances-of-people-through-machine-learning-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Restoring Appearances Of People Through Machine Learning Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We often wonder what famous historical figures actually looked like. Sure, there are paintings and sometimes statues of those people but how much can we trust them. At the end of the day, those are artworks, they\u2019re subjective. They are depictions of how the artist saw the person, and in many cases, if the person was famous and powerful they were depicted to look better than they actually did.\n\n\n\n<figure class='\"wp-block-image\"'><img decoding='\"async\"' src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/img-cdn.brainberries.co%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2020%5C/07%5C/01-Benjamin-Franklin.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"\"' class='\"wp-image-69624\"\/'><figcaption class='\"wp-element-caption\"'>Benjamin Franklin\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately, photography didn\u2019t exist back in the day so it\u2019s really hard to know for sure what a person looked like. But a photographer from Amsterdam, Bas Uterwijk, has found a way to create the most realistic looking \u201cphotographs\u201d of historical figures.\n\n\n\n<figure class='\"wp-block-image\"'><img decoding='\"async\"' src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/img-cdn.brainberries.co%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2020%5C/07%5C/02-Rembrandt.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"\"' class='\"wp-image-69625\"\/'><figcaption class='\"wp-element-caption\"'>Rembrandt\n\n\n\n<p>Bas uses a special software that can recreate really photographic looking pictures of people based on the information and images you put in. The results are kind of mindblowing. This technology can also create an image of a person based on millions of other photographs.\n\n\n\n<!--nextpage-->\n\n\n\n<figure class='\"wp-block-image\"'><img decoding='\"async\"' src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/img-cdn.brainberries.co%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2020%5C/07%5C/03-Van-Gogh-819x1024.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"\"' class='\"wp-image-69626\"\/'><figcaption class='\"wp-element-caption\"'>Vincent van Gogh\n\n\n\n<p>Bas says that while he can\u2019t claim his pictures are any kind of scientific proof of what these historical figures looked like, but to him, these look way more realistic than the paintings.\n\n\n\n<figure class='\"wp-block-image\"'><img decoding='\"async\"' src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/img-cdn.brainberries.co%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2020%5C/07%5C/04-Victoria-I.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"\"' class='\"wp-image-69627\"\/'><figcaption class='\"wp-element-caption\"'>Queen Elizabeth I\n\n\n\n<p>Basically, people have looked pretty much the same for thousands of years now. The only difference is the fashion and hairstyles. Obviously, we also have advances in medicine that can correct certain things about our features if we want to, but the basic structure of human faces and our features now aren\u2019t really that far off from those of people who lived hundreds of years ago.\n\n\n\n<!--nextpage-->\n\n\n\n<figure class='\"wp-block-image\"'><img decoding='\"async\"' src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/img-cdn.brainberries.co%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2020%5C/07%5C/05-Statue-of-Liberty.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"\"' class='\"wp-image-69628\"\/'><figcaption class='\"wp-element-caption\"'>Statue of Liberty\n\n\n\n<p>So Bas just puts in the information required and the machine learning tech creates the image for him. The only thing he does have to go and fix a little with photoshop is hairstyles because the software doesn\u2019t do historical hairstyles just yet. But he says it\u2019s constantly being updated and it develops and learns really quickly, so over time he expects it\u2019ll be possible to make even more realistic looking images of historical figures and famous people from the past.\n\n\n\n<figure class='\"wp-block-image\"'><img decoding='\"async\"' src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/img-cdn.brainberries.co%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2020%5C/07%5C/06-Jesus-Christ.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"\"' class='\"wp-image-69629\"\/'><figcaption class='\"wp-element-caption\"'>Jesus Christ\n\n\n\n<p>Bas also likes to use this technology for art purposes. He often posts images on&nbsp;<a href="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.instagram.com%5C/ganbrood%5C/%5C%22" target='\"_blank\"' rel='\"noreferrer' noopener>Instagram&nbsp;of people that look very real and sort of familiar. They might look like someone you know, but in reality, they\u2019re a mix of various features of some famous people and some other random people.\n\n\n\n<!--nextpage-->\n\n\n\n<figure class='\"wp-block-image\"'><img decoding='\"async\"' src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/img-cdn.brainberries.co%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2020%5C/07%5C/07-Sandro-Botticelli.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"\"' class='\"wp-image-69630\"\/'><figcaption class='\"wp-element-caption\"'>Sandro Botticelli\n\n\n\n<p>The result, however, is an image of a person that doesn\u2019t exist. Isn\u2019t it crazy? You can get a photograph of a person who literally has never existed and was just fully created by a program yet it looks so real.\n\n\n\n<figure class='\"wp-block-image\"'><img decoding='\"async\"' src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/img-cdn.brainberries.co%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2020%5C/07%5C/08-Napoleon.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"\"' class='\"wp-image-69631\"\/'><figcaption class='\"wp-element-caption\"'>Napoleon Bonaparte\n\n\n\n<p>Bas is nearing 10k followers on Instagram and we expect that his audience will only grow. If you want to see more of his unique creations and follow his unique art project we suggest you follow him on social media. He\u2019s already got quite a collection of \u201cphotographs\u201d of made-up people, and the fans of his art are having a blast trying to figure out who they are in the comments.\n\n\n\n<figure class='\"wp-block-image\"'><img decoding='\"async\"' src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/img-cdn.brainberries.co%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2020%5C/07%5C/09-Michelangelo-s-David.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"\"' class='\"wp-image-69632\"\/'><figcaption class='\"wp-element-caption\"'>Michelangelo\u2019s David\n\n\n\n<p>Who knows if these \u201cphotographs\u201d are actually closer to real life and better at restoring appearances of historical figures, but it\u2019s certainly fun to take a look at what Van Gogh, Napoleon, Rembrandt, Sandro Botticelli, Niccol\u00f2 Machiavelli, Michelangelo\u2019s David and others might\u2019ve looked like if you could actually take a photograph of them. 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