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Someone used neural networks to upscale a famous 1896 video to 4k quality, Ars Technica

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Someone used neural networks to upscale a famous 1896 video to 4k quality, Ars Technica

      Blast from the past –

             

Machine-learning software fills in missing details to produce realistic images.

      

      

              

Timothy B. Lee / Colorize Images / Denis Shiryaev An obvious next step would be to colorize the video. Neural networks can do that, too, using the same basic technique: start with a bunch of color photos, convert them to black and white, and then train a neural network to reconstruct the color originals.

I dropped a frame from Shiryaev’s video into the Colorize Images app for Android, which uses machine learning to automatically colorize images. As you can see, it does a pretty good job, correctly inferring that trees should be green, gravel should be a brownish color, and that men’s coats should be black. I would love to see someone with more time and better tools colorize Shiryaev’s upscaled version of the Lumière Brothers’ classic.