AI Successfully Reveals Painting Of A Naked Woman In Pablo Picasso's Hidden Work

Artificial intelligence (AI) has succeeded in revealing a portrait of a woman without clothes by Picasso. (photo: Oxia Paulus & Pablo Picasso)

JAKARTA - Technology can change everything, it was proven when artificial intelligence (AI) managed to reveal a portrait of a naked woman squatting, which had been hidden under the surface of Pablo Picasso's painting.

The painting has been revealed using artificial intelligence, advanced imaging technology, and 3D printing. Thanks to Oxia Paulus, a company that uses technology to revive lost art, this portrait of the painting dubbed "The Lonesome Crouching Nude" looks absolutely stunning.

Oxia Palus was co-founded by George Cann and Anthony Bourached, a pair of PhD candidates in machine learning at University College London (UCL).

Picasso painted the figure while making "The Blind Man's Meal" in 1903. The image of the naked woman has been partially revealed by X-ray fluorescence (XRF) images, but Oxia Palus has now revived the hidden masterpiece with a different approach.

Compiled from CNET, Friday, October 15, to do so, the company reused XRF and image processing to reveal hidden painting outlines, and then trained artificial intelligence to add brushstrokes to portraits in the Picasso style.

Then, it can generate a map of the height of the image to provide texture, and print the image onto the canvas using 3D printing technology. The woman also appears in Picasso's painting "La Vie" and a number of his sketches, which suggests that the artist may have had an affinity for her.

"Art is a complex store of information, and machine learning has progressed to the point that it can help us analyze that information. We have complex systems now that can help us understand our history and culture better," says Bourached.

The Lonesome Crouching Nude is not the first hidden painting from Picasso's Blue Period to be revealed. In 2014, infrared rays managed to launch a portrait of a bearded man under another Blue Period work, The Blue Room, which depicts a woman taking a bath. In addition, Cann and Bourached also applied this technology to other hidden Picasso paintings, such as La Femme Perdue, as well as the missing Modigliani.