Show HN: I made a new AI colorizer

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Post by emilwallner » Wed, Oct 19, 2022, 1:00 PM UTC

Hi HN, I’m Emil, the maker behind Palette. I’ve been tinkering with AI and colorization for about five years. This is my latest colorization model. It’s a text-based AI colorizer, so you can edit the colorizations with natural language. To make it easier to use, I also automatically create captions and generate filters.

Let me know what you think.

You can see some of my results on my reddit page: https://www.reddit.com/user/emilwallner/?sort=top

Show HN: I made a new AI colorizer
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Re: Show HN: I made a new AI colorizer

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Oct 19, 2022, 1:01 PM UTC

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Re: Show HN: I made a new AI colorizer

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Post by speedgoose » Wed, Oct 19, 2022, 3:23 PM UTC

How does it work? Do you write scientific papers?

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Post by WrtCdEvrydy » Wed, Oct 19, 2022, 3:25 PM UTC

Wow, any way to run this locally?

I love this technology but it would feel kinda terrible to upload a whole bunch of stuff to your site and exploit your generosity.

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Post by aix1 » Wed, Oct 19, 2022, 3:32 PM UTC

Quite an incredible compilation of photos on your reddit page, thanks for sharing.

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Post by MitPitt » Wed, Oct 19, 2022, 3:36 PM UTC

This is great. I'd also love to have the option to manually draw guiding colors over parts of the image, for even more control.

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Post by waltbosz » Wed, Oct 19, 2022, 3:38 PM UTC

Very cool.

Your results look much better than the washed out AI colorization that I've seen in the past.

I think you could charge money for this service.

A suggestion for something fun to do / marketing tool: recolorize this video frame-by-frame https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ1OgQL9_Cw

Feature request: colorize B&W comic books. I really want to create a full color book of Calvin & Hobbes comics. (Not for publication)

Re: Show HN: I made a new AI colorizer

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Post by emilwallner » Wed, Oct 19, 2022, 3:42 PM UTC

speedgoose wrote: post #3

How 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...

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Post by emilwallner » Wed, Oct 19, 2022, 3:43 PM UTC

aix1 wrote: post #5

Quite an incredible compilation of photos on your reddit page, thanks for sharing.

thanks, that means a lot!

Re: Show HN: I made a new AI colorizer

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Post by tanvach » Wed, Oct 19, 2022, 3:43 PM UTC

Nice UI, and the approach works quite well (occasional wrong choice of palette compared to ground truth). It’s kind of fun to turn my photos into B/W and run through the model to try and guess the output.

Do you have a privacy policy for the uploaded photos? I’m not keen on uploading anything important without knowing how it’s stored or will be used in the future.