An artist who brings life back to the Roman emperors

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How did the Roman emperors really look? A question in the minds of the Canadian researcher and designer Daniel Fochart, during the home quarantine due to Corona, as he was able, from his home in Toronto, to transform the stone statues of the ancient Roman emperors that date back about 2000 years into realistic and colorful images suitable for publication on social networking sites by mixing Modern technical techniques with artificial intelligence.

Fuchart said he had originally made 300 posters in his first batch, hoping to sell them within a year, but sold them within three weeks.

His work has spread widely since then, and the designer says: I knew that Roman history was interesting and there is an audience for it, but it was still surprising how quickly this happened to me.

Fouchart used a range of different programs and resources to recolor pictures and statues, and the main tool is a program called ArtBreeder, which uses a machine learning method known as (GAN) to deal with portraits and landscapes.