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Re:Colorizing black and white photos with deep learning by flsantos on Friday October 13, 2017 @09:57AM (#15465680)
Interesting! If nowadays, pictures are colorized by hand in photoshop, it wouldn't be practical to colorize a full black and white movie. I guess this deep learning approach would solve this problem and colorize old black and white classic movies.
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Re:Colorizing black and white photos with deep learning by zimpenfish on Friday October 13, 2017 @09:59AM (#15465704)
I think colorising b&w movies must already be fairly practical given the size of this list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_black-and-white_films_...

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Re:Colorizing black and white photos with deep learning by saip on Friday October 13, 2017 @10:51AM (#15466205)
Agreed. I imagine this has applications in compression as well. You could stream a movie (or a football game) in black and white and enable each device to color it on the spot. A similar technique could also be done for HD/3D/VR.
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Re:Colorizing black and white photos with deep learning by tzahola on Friday October 13, 2017 @05:15PM (#15469291)
Or you can just broadcast the audio from the game and a neural net will synthesize the video on the fly. The possibilities are _endless_!
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Re:Colorizing black and white photos with deep learning by roywiggins on Friday October 13, 2017 @01:07PM (#15467437)
Coloring football uniforms might be nearly impossible though...
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Re:Colorizing black and white photos with deep learning by zardo on Friday October 13, 2017 @01:00PM (#15467397)
Yes, you provide a handful of full data keyframes and reconstruct the details of the stream from the middle out.
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Re:Colorizing black and white photos with deep learning by kiliankoe on Friday October 13, 2017 @01:52PM (#15467834)
That middle out compression has some fantastic Weissman scores I believe.
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Re:Colorizing black and white photos with deep learning by mholmes680 on Friday October 13, 2017 @11:53AM (#15466716)
that is an amazing idea.
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Re:Colorizing black and white photos with deep learning by WalterBright on Friday October 13, 2017 @04:02PM (#15468844)
I'd like to see more than colorization. Consider the silent movie "Wings". Very high quality blu-rays are available of it. I would colorize it, remove the dialog cards and dub the dialog, then add foley sound effects and a music soundtrack!
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