This photo combination shows digital colorization, top, by Anju Niwata and Hidenori Watanave, and original black and white photo that two people walk on a cleared path through the destruction resulting from the Aug. 6 detonation of the first atomic bomb, Sept. 8, 1945. Professor Hidenori Watanabe and his student Anju Niwata of a Tokyo University lab is using AI to add color to historic wartime photographs using a combination of methods. These include the latest AI technologies, but also traditional methods, going door to door interviewing survivors who track back memories to color their family photographs. The team has brought to life hundreds of black-and-white wartime photographs and those of post-war devastation. (U.S. Air Force/Anju Niwata & Hidenori Watanave via AP)
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