On AI colourisation: algorithms, ancestry, and colour beyond the black box.
This article investigates the recent fusion of AI colourisation with genealogy and ancestry databases to offer a set of reflections on this nascent technology. Combining humanistic approaches from film and media studies, science and technology studies, critical race studies, and visual and material...
| Publicado en: | Visual Studies Vol. 40; no. 1; pp. 70 - 85 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Feb2025
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