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AI-Powered Nvidia RTX Video HDR Transforms Standard Video into HDR Video

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Re: AI-Powered Nvidia RTX Video HDR Transforms Standard Video into HDR Video

#43

A bit of a let down that the video demoing SDR->HDR conversion is itself only published in SDR. Makes as much sense as demoing a colorization tool in a grayscale video!

HDR video playback in the browser is pretty unreliable unless you're on a Mac.

It's also pretty unreliable on Mac too...

It's more reliable then on linux though, and windows has been doing "auto HDR" for videos for years, so kinda hard to tell when something is HDR or not there.

Re: AI-Powered Nvidia RTX Video HDR Transforms Standard Video into HDR Video

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post #44

This stuff is sick. If we had a real-time upscaler on a zoom telescope it would be a fantastic tool while traveling. I'd get a kick out of that.

And what would fake detail in the real world give to you?

it doesn't have to be "fake" detail, an AI can use multiple frames to gather much more information than is available in a single frame and composite them into a much more detailed image

Re: AI-Powered Nvidia RTX Video HDR Transforms Standard Video into HDR Video

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post #27

I recently had some old super8 films shot by my parents scanned into 1080p resolution in ProresHQ. Because of the poor optics of the original camera, imperfect focus when shooting, poor lightning conditions, and general deterioration of the film stock, most of the footage won't get anywhere near what 1080p could deliver. What I'd like to try at some point is to let some AI/ML model process the frames, and instead of…

Something like this will always change the original as it's guessing what should be there as it up scales. Only time will improve the guessing.

Re: AI-Powered Nvidia RTX Video HDR Transforms Standard Video into HDR Video

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post #27

I recently had some old super8 films shot by my parents scanned into 1080p resolution in ProresHQ. Because of the poor optics of the original camera, imperfect focus when shooting, poor lightning conditions, and general deterioration of the film stock, most of the footage won't get anywhere near what 1080p could deliver. What I'd like to try at some point is to let some AI/ML model process the frames, and instead of…

An interesting thing about Super8: the resolution is generally very poor, but it can have quite the dynamic range. Also, with film in general (and video, but it's easier with film because you have global shutter) you can compensate motion blur and get more detail out which isn't visible when you look at the film frame by frame. And none of this needs AI.

Regarding hallucination, I agree with the sibling comment, the problem is that faces change. And with video, I'm not even sure the same person would have the same face in various parts of the video...

Re: AI-Powered Nvidia RTX Video HDR Transforms Standard Video into HDR Video

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post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They are fake. Ultimately it’s not recovering lost detail, it’s making shit up

I don't think making things up is the problem, it's if it's believable. If it's indistinguishable to a viewer, then who cares. I never would have thought the HDR of the clouds was "made up".

"I don't think making things up is the problem, it's if it's believable"

Depends of course if it's being passed off as reality. Slippery slope and all.

Re: AI-Powered Nvidia RTX Video HDR Transforms Standard Video into HDR Video

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That seems like a gimmick and I actually prefer SDR video that is not upscaled. There is something ugly about those AI treated videos. They look fake.

They are fake. Ultimately it’s not recovering lost detail, it’s making shit up

These remind me of the Samsung debacle about recognizing moon and emplacing a high quality texture of it into the image shot by camera.
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