Monday, August 04, 2025

Digital Restoration of 19th Century Photographs by Artificial Intelligence

Amazing advances have been made in Digital Restoration of 19th Century Photographs by Artificial Intelligence.

Bruce Cooper provides the following examples of automatic restoration and colorization, now taking mere minutes to create using AI, compared to hours to perform with manual photo restoration.


Lewis Metzler Clement AI photo restoration
Lewis Metzler Clement, AI photo restoration.
Courtesy of Bruce Clement Cooper.


CPRR engineer AI photo restoration
CPRR Locomotive Engineer Dan Hanton, AI photo restoration.
Courtesy of Bruce Clement Cooper.