tested on a few pics. excellent colorization. pls provide patreon etc link so the site stays up! thxxx
Show HN: I made a new AI colorizer
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#52It's funny to let it operate on a pile of random Lego blocks of different colours. Funny how it sometimes uses a completely different colour. In some other cases it guesses it completely right. Sometimes you also see a from one color to another color gradient, while the real thing has one color with a shadow gradient. How large is your trainingsset?
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#53This is quite amazing, and useful. Great work.
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#54How does it work? Do you write scientific papers?
I haven't made a write-up of this yet, I still need to figure out how to self-fund it. I normally do more layman scientific writing like this: https://artsandculture.google.com/story/the-klimt-color-enig...
Amazing work! Thanks for sharing!
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#55(Genuine) question, and no snark intended: why do so many people want to change history? Black and white photos are - for many of us - part of our shared historical record. Is there really a need to improve (=change) them? Can't we appreciate them exactly as they are, without modifications?
Some use picture to imagine how life was back then. Life wasn't black and white. Same with the facial expressions in old photos. People look pretty serious but that's just because of the technology pf photography back then. People were as silly and joyful as nowadays.
> Some use picture to imagine how life was back then. Life wasn't black and white.
Life (time) doesn't tend to stand still, either, yet we are able to appreciate photographs.
Would we really benefit from old photographs being AI-animated into "videos"?
Perhaps I'm showing my age, but the older I get the more I feel at one with life's imperfections. I'm fine without filters and HDR ... or colour ... or motion.
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#56Heh, a lot of the results are more visually appealing than the real landscape I shot in B&W.
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#57(Genuine) question, and no snark intended: why do so many people want to change history? Black and white photos are - for many of us - part of our shared historical record. Is there really a need to improve (=change) them? Can't we appreciate them exactly as they are, without modifications?
Nothing is being changed. After using the tool you still have the original, plus a new version which can be used alongside
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#58Wow I put a few b+w photos, initially shot in colour so I can compare how it did, and it more or less nailed it—great work. They were shot on a iphone, so I wonder if newer digitally-shot photos have more data for the app to parse, or if it's generally easier compared to film (and whether it uses any EXIF data)
I expect the training to be done mostly on modern digital cameras
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
Some use picture to imagine how life was back then. Life wasn't black and white. Same with the facial expressions in old photos. People look pretty serious but that's just because of the technology pf photography back then. People were as silly and joyful as nowadays.
> Some use picture to imagine how life was back then. Life wasn't black and white. Life (time) doesn't tend to stand still, either, yet we are able to appreciate photographs. Would we really benefit from old photographs being AI-animated into "videos"? Perhaps I'm showing my age, but the older I get the more I feel at one with life's imperfections. I'm fine without filters and HDR ... or colour ... or motion.
> Would we really benefit from old photographs being AI-animated into "videos"?
Yeah that would be pretty cool.
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
Some use picture to imagine how life was back then. Life wasn't black and white. Same with the facial expressions in old photos. People look pretty serious but that's just because of the technology pf photography back then. People were as silly and joyful as nowadays.
> Some use picture to imagine how life was back then. Life wasn't black and white. Life (time) doesn't tend to stand still, either, yet we are able to appreciate photographs. Would we really benefit from old photographs being AI-animated into "videos"? Perhaps I'm showing my age, but the older I get the more I feel at one with life's imperfections. I'm fine without filters and HDR ... or colour ... or motion.
>Would we really benefit from old photographs being AI-animated into "videos"?
Some people seem to think that