Vid2Colour Research @EEE NUI Galway

Restoring old black/white Irish Videos to colour using Artificial Intelligence(AI).

[Vid2Colour Research @EEE NUI Galway @Vid2Colour]

This week's colourised and enhanced video is Brennan Of The Moor. Hope that you enjoy it. @galwayeee @galwayDSI @crt_ai

https://t.co/xGnwIfAsjF

#colourised #blackandwhite #irishfilm #AI

[Vid2Colour Research @EEE NUI Galway @Vid2Colour]

This week's colourised and enhanced video is Bold Emmett. Hope that you enjoy it. @galwayeee @galwayDSI @crt_ai

https://t.co/PajvsK8lSl

#colourised #blackandwhite #irishfilm #AI

[Vid2Colour Research @EEE NUI Galway @Vid2Colour]

This week's colourised and enhanced video is Come Back to Erin. Hope that you enjoy it. @galwayeee @galwayDSI @crt_ai

https://t.co/5XZ4uMyZSb

#colourised #blackandwhite #irishfilm #AI

[Vid2Colour Research @EEE NUI Galway @Vid2Colour]

We're back! This week's colourised and enhanced video is Rory O'More. Hope that you enjoy it. If you have any recommendations for future videos, send us a message or comment on our posts. @galwayeee

https://t.co/KuiXMNVwJn

#colourised #blackandwhite #irishfilm #AI

[John Breslin @johnbreslin]

Merci Michel pour le bel article de blog sur le travail de recherche de Rory en colorisant les films de Sidney Olcott

Great to see this appreciative blog post by @michelderrien for @roryward_1998's work on @Vid2Colour @galwayeee @galwayDSI @crt_ai

https://t.co/x35DHsrwGm

[Rory Ward @roryward_1998]

📢 Delighted to announce that our paper "Towards Temporal Stability in Automatic Video Colourisation" has been accepted to IMVIP! @eeenuigalway

#colourised #blackandwhite #irishfilm #AI

[Vid2Colour Research @EEE NUI Galway @Vid2Colour]

This week's colourised and enhanced video is The Colleen Bawn. @eeenuigalway

#colourised #blackandwhite #irishfilm #AI

https://t.co/OBFav0AKJr

[Vid2Colour Research @EEE NUI Galway @Vid2Colour]

This week's colourised and enhanced video is Ireland A Nation. @eeenuigalway

#colourised #blackandwhite #irishfilm #AI
https://t.co/t55OP1YWhC

[Vid2Colour Research @EEE NUI Galway @Vid2Colour]

This week's colourised and enhanced video is You Remember Ellen. @eeenuigalway
#colourised #blackandwhite #irishfilm #AI
https://t.co/47J1ukNuNM

[Vid2Colour Research @EEE NUI Galway @Vid2Colour]

This week's colourised and enhanced video is The Lad From Old Ireland. @eeenuigalway

#colourised #blackandwhite #irishfilm #AI
https://t.co/QcsxY3mxaj

[Vid2Colour Research @EEE NUI Galway @Vid2Colour]

This week's colourised and enhanced video is His Mother. @eeenuigalway
#colourised #blackandwhite #irishfilm #AI
https://t.co/lYdpHX6Ljx

[Vid2Colour Research @EEE NUI Galway @Vid2Colour]

The first video that we are showing on our channel is For Ireland's Sake. It has been colourised and upscaled. @eeenuigalway #colourised #blackandwhite #irishfilm #AI

https://t.co/Wq7IKBz6IL

[Vid2Colour Research @EEE NUI Galway @Vid2Colour]

Some exciting news. We have just launched our YouTube channel. We are going to use it for our longer videos that cannot be uploaded to Twitter. @eeenuigalway #colourised

https://t.co/lT5XLl7cNm

[Vid2Colour Research @EEE NUI Galway @Vid2Colour]

Delighted to have been accepted to give a presentation at the Insight Conference on Deep Learning on 25th and 26th of May in Dublin City University. The title of our presentation is “Towards Temporal Stability in Automatic Video Colourisation”. @eeenuigalway #colourised

[Vid2Colour Research @EEE NUI Galway @Vid2Colour]

Video resolution has a huge effect on a video's perceived quality. Old videos are often very low quality and need to be upscaled. This particular clip taken from Bold Emmett was originally 450x360 pixels but is now 1920x1080. @eeenuigalway #blackandwhite #irishfilm #colourised

[Vid2Colour Research @EEE NUI Galway @Vid2Colour]

As well as colouriation, another important factor in what makes a high-quality video is the frame rate. Lets take a clip from "Ireland A Nation" as an example. We have boosted the frame rate using RIFE to make the motion smoother. @eeenuigalway #blackandwhite #irishfilm

[Vid2Colour Research @EEE NUI Galway @Vid2Colour]

Last but not least for this series of spotlight videos is For Ireland's Sake. It tells the story of Marty and his sweetheart Eileen as they try to evade capture by the British Soldiers. This clip shows the couple before they were on the run. @eeenuigalway

[Vid2Colour Research @EEE NUI Galway @Vid2Colour]

Rory O'More is up for colourisation this time. This film tells the dramatised story of one of Ireland's great rebels. This particular clip shows Rory evading capture from the British soldiers by swimming through one of the Lakes of Killarney. @eeenuigalway

[Vid2Colour Research @EEE NUI Galway @Vid2Colour]

This week's chosen video is His Mother. It tells the all too familiar story of the heart-broken mother left behind when a son leaves home to follow his dreams. This particular clip shows the son honing his skills before starting his adventure. @eeenuigalway

[Vid2Colour Research @EEE NUI Galway @Vid2Colour]

The Colleen Bawn is this week's movie of the week. Based on true events, a mother tries to regain her wealth and social status by arranging a marriage for her son. His heart belongs to another though, The Colleen Bawn. @eeenuigalway