{"id":216181,"date":"2025-06-18T09:17:59","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T14:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/years-of-painting-restoration-work-done-in-just-hours-by-new-technique"},"modified":"2025-06-18T09:17:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T14:17:59","slug":"years-of-painting-restoration-work-done-in-just-hours-by-new-technique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/years-of-painting-restoration-work-done-in-just-hours-by-new-technique","title":{"rendered":"Years of painting restoration work done in just hours by new technique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uf1iO_WTkwI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Although AI-based restoration methods can indeed bring new life to damaged paintings, the end result is typically a digital <i>copy<\/i> of the original painting. By contrast, a new MIT technique applies reversible repairs to the physical painting itself, in the form of a removable mask.<\/p>\n<p>The process was developed by mechanical engineering graduate student Alex Kachkine, who restores paintings via traditional hand-painting techniques as a hobby.<\/p>\n<p>He realized that many galleries have a number of paintings which never get displayed, because they require restoration that would take too long \u2013 and thus be too expensive \u2013 to perform by hand. Utilizing his method, however, restoration times could be reduced from years, months or weeks down to a matter of hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although AI-based restoration methods can indeed bring new life to damaged paintings, the end result is typically a digital copy of the original painting. By contrast, a new MIT technique applies reversible repairs to the physical painting itself, in the form of a removable mask. The process was developed by mechanical engineering graduate student Alex [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":718,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,42,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-media-arts","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}