Colab Notebooks: DeOldify
Vladimir Alexeev
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Vladimir Alexeev
Autor, Forscher, Künstler, Speaker, KI-Berater (Generative KI). Digital Experience Specialist - @ DB Schenker. OpenAI Community Ambassador. Digital Resident. Ich erforsche kreative Mitarbeit von Mensch + Maschine
What’s that about:
DeOldify model by Jason Antic allows organic colorization of photos and videos. You can bring back to vivid life old historical footage. Meanwhile, it’s implemented into MyHeritage.org.
The method is powerful. It recognizes patterns and objects and applies the colors of trained visual databases on it.
For example, these flowers from the 1950ies:
It also works for videos. Watch here #DeOldified and upscaled version of the famous “Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (The Lumière Brothers, 1896)”
Advice:
Upload your b&w footage to your Google Drive. So you can preserve privacy (if you trust Google Cloud, of course).
Links:
- GitHub
- DeOldify for images
- DeOldify for videos (supports various video platforms)
Read more:
Index of Series "Google Colab Notebook".
Full essay "12 Colab Notebooks that matter"