Colorizing black and white photos with deep learning

Re:Colorizing black and white photos with deep learning by trizzashamafoo on Friday January 08, 2016 @01:31PM (#10867032)

These results are clearly hand-picked to leave out complete failures like these:

http://tinyclouds.org/colorize/val-imgs/val-000100-1.jpg http://tinyclouds.org/colorize/val-imgs/val-000800-2.jpg

When I selected from the validation images, most had these blue splotches that were not shown on the web page. Obviously a model is not expected to work 100% of the time, but I think the link misrepresents the results by not even showing a single instance of this common failure.

edit: further scrolling shows it's less common than I thought.

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Re:Colorizing black and white photos with deep learning by gefh on Friday January 08, 2016 @01:54PM (#10867230)

That's a 100-generation result and not expected to be that great, they do get better with more training.

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Re:Colorizing black and white photos with deep learning by degenerate on Friday January 08, 2016 @01:34PM (#10867060)

For a second I thought the pics on the far right were the machine-created colors, and I thought, those are amazing! Then I realized it was the middle pic, haha, terrible.

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