I ran a test with a photo I took if people are curious. It does a great job for guessing, but of course there is room for improvement.
Show HN: I made a new AI colorizer
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#62Amazing work congratulations!
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#63(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?
The impulse to colorize monochrome photos goes back almost as long as photography itself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand-colouring_of_photographs#...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand-colouring_of_photographs#...
It depends on the photo, obviously, but colorization can also give a new dimension of contrast to a photo, even if the colors aren't strictly accurate, by separating out the foreground from the background better.
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#64Thanks, this is awesome. Colorized a few last images of my WWII grandfather who died in this war.
One observation: on download the MIME type seems to by PNG format, but the binary file arriving is actually a (lossy compressed) JPEG.
But anyhow! Great work!!
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#65Unfortunately, this has the common bias[1] with IA coloring of making old stuff look dull, reinforcing the Hollywood cliché[2]. The past was actually often very colorful.
[1]: https://nitter.lacontrevoie.fr/gwenckatz/status/138165207169...
[2]: see this video by a movie props maker about why Hollywood movies make old things look the way they do in movie https://youtu.be/mF1VFlCnLQ4?t=434
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#66This blew my mind. Amazing.
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#67Nice, maybe I can turn the movie The Lighthouse from black and white into a color motion picture. I hear color "movies" as they call 'em are what's hot these days.
Original: https://i.imgur.com/9CZ7vk1.png
Base Palette: https://i.imgur.com/iTq5H9W.jpeg
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#68I tried it on the photo linked below and it makes the string instruments look like they're made of brass. Not trying to bash it since I thought it was pretty impressive overall, but I'm curious about what leads to this type of failure. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jazzing_orchestra_19...
thanks for the feedback! it's made out of two models, one model creates a caption and the second model takes the caption and the black and white image and colorizes it. if you click on the edit button you can see the text that generated that colorization. if the text is incorrect, you can edit the text and recolorize it. this often leads to a better result, however, some cases are still hard, especially damaged photo…
I assume you're using CLIP or BLIP for the text generation of the model, and then img2img or something like that for the colorization. What model are you using for the latter colorization?
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#69that's incredible. congratulations on the great work and thanks for sharing with us.
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#70I was actually testing Photoshop's new colorizing filter this week, so this is timely. My first impression of Palette in comparison is that it does a comparably good job of colorizing. Sometimes Photoshop does better, sometimes Palette -- usually the skin tones is the hardest part, and one does a noticeably better job than the other.
The natural language modifications available in Palette ("his shirt is light blue") are super useful. Well done.