Fascinating write up from the talented team @datagovsg who used recent AI work to automatically colorise old images from Singapore; https://t.co/1BeuPITSIj
@citnaj@robbiehonerkamp@harishpillay@GovTechSG We ended up with ~100K body part related images. And while the training didn't really improve colourisation of all limbs, it did help with colourising specific features like the lips/mouth and feet.
@citnaj@robbiehonerkamp@harishpillay@GovTechSG Thanks! We were really inspired by your project. We wanted to use body part-related images from Open Images to improve limb/body colourisation - we used https://t.co/QI6mQIlz2L to pick out these images by category and removed duplicates across multiple categories.
@robbiehonerkamp@harishpillay We used @citnaj’s architecture and trained it on Singaporean historical images and Open Images. And so we plan to release our model some time in March, in addition to a CoLab notebook that you can use to colourise your own photos on Google Drive. @GovTechSG
Translation: Similar projects already exist, but none works as fast as https://t.co/L4bNayi0u0 , a web tool that uses deep learning algorithms to color photos in black and white as if by magic.
So freaking cool... https://t.co/BwFK6dTPTI uses deep learning to automatically add color your B/W photos, in just a few seconds. Here is one of my late grandpa Joe.
This website uses tech to automatically colorize old photos.
Here’s my grandparents wedding photo!
So so awesome. Thank you @MusaTariq for sharing!
https://t.co/vToVJkp3qJ
I've never seen my grandparents like this before. Digging into my family's photo archives to bring some incredible black & white photos to life in new ways with https://t.co/AGnRvrAzHa. Imperfect, but nonetheless breathtaking.