Re:Colorizing and restoring old images with deep learning
by eagsalazar2 on Friday November 02, 2018 @07:22PM
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Hah yeah I just listened to that a couple days ago but didn't make the connection. Probably was rattling around my subconscious when I wrote this question because yeah it is very similar. That's a particularly interesting comparison too because the whole point was that just filling in conservatively based on experience misses a ton a real-world crazy and interesting diversity. The best example was how if we were imagining what elephants looked like just based on their fossilized skeletons, they wouldn't have trunks!
In recent decades there has been a push to show the animals more realistically. The fossilized evidence is studied and compared to the skeletal structure of animals that exist today. Inferences and educated guesses are made from there to project a more realistic but more subjective image of the dinosaurs. We now get much more varied and interesting depictions with feathers, bright coloring, fat deposits, and other features that can neither be completely confirmed or ruled out based on the evidence.
[1] - https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/welcome-to-jurassic-a...