Machine Learning in the Eyes of a Painting Conservator Publisher: IEEE

As a conservator specializing in paintings, I first got in contact with machine (deep) learning in 2015, when I was working as part of a team of conservators from the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA) restoring the Ghent Altarpiece (1426) by the van Eyck brothers.
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