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AI restores missing parts to Rembrandt masterpiece ‘The Night Watch’
- Thursday | 24th June, 2021
Rijksmuseum Senior Scientist Robert Erdmann explained some of the steps in crafting the missing parts, which are hung to overlap the original work without touching it. First both “The Night Watch” and the much smaller copy, which is attributed to Gerrit Lundens and dated to around 1655, had to be carefully photographed. The artificial intelligence software learned by trying millions of times to approximate Rembrandt’s style and colours more closely. Erdemann said the result was good enough that the AI had “hallucinated” cracks in the paint in some spots as it translated Lundens work into Rembrandt. But asked whether this is the best possible restoration of “The Night Watch”, he said no.
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