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Re: Show HN: I made a new AI colorizer

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Post by emilwallner »

waltbosz wrote: post #7

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 publicati…

Thanks! yeah, a few people have used the tool to colorize videos, frame by frame. For example Lord of the flies (1963): https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8eiho4

Although, I'd recommend colorizing a few key frames and then use https://github.com/zhangmozhe/Deep-Exemplar-based-Video-Colo...

Cool, yeah, my next model will be better for comic books. You can also use the 'Surprise Me' button in the editor and you'll get some decent results.

Re: Show HN: I made a new AI colorizer

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Post by shubhamjain »

Awesome job! This makes me a bit envious. I am hobbyist colorizer [1] who did it the old school way (with tools like Affinity Photo and lot of manual work). I tried de-oldify and other tools but I justified my work thinking how horrible they were but pallette.fm is way too good. Not sure if I would find the motivation to restore old photos anymore. Glad that this was just a small hobby for me and I had just started learning the ropes.

But I would be dead scared if I was a professional[2] who did this full-time. Is this what AI taking your job feels like?

[1]: https://shubhamjain.co/experiments/

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vubuBrcAwtY

Re: Show HN: I made a new AI colorizer

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Post by emilwallner »

tanvach wrote: post #10

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.

cheers! i'm working on a proper privacy policy. I don't store any images that are uploaded. i use google analytics and mixpanel to store user interactions.

Re: Show HN: I made a new AI colorizer

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Post by writeslowly »

I 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...

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