Graduate student Alex Kachkine has developed a new technique that “uses AI-generated polymer films to physically restore damaged paintings in hours,” reports Benj Edwards for Ars Technica. “Kachkine’s method works by printing a transparent ‘mask’ containing thousands of precisely color-matched regions that conservators can apply …
https://news.mit.edu/2025/restoring-damaged-paintings-using-ai-generated-mask-0611