Using neural networks to upscale a famous 1896 video to 4k quality

Re:Using neural networks to upscale a famous 1896 video to 4... by intellijdd on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @11:15PM (#22243966)

At 35 seconds, the woman running with the child in the direction of the camera, her face is almost completely blurred out. If you look really hard you can see an outline of her nose and what not but overall it is interesting to see how the neural net works in this region of the video.

Not surprising, but still drives the point home that good ML/AI algorithms have a bottleneck at the input data.

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Re:Using neural networks to upscale a famous 1896 video to 4... by mwcremer on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @11:43PM (#22244091)

I think she is wearing a kind of veil, as are several other women.

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Re:Using neural networks to upscale a famous 1896 video to 4... by seanmcdirmid on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @01:23AM (#22244466)

I thought it was a veil also. This was France, so it could have been someone from one of their colonies at the time?

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Re:Using neural networks to upscale a famous 1896 video to 4... by andrepd on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @02:12AM (#22244672)

Old French (and Italian and Portuguese and etc) women commonly wear veils/babushkas, even today.

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Re:Using neural networks to upscale a famous 1896 video to 4... by Udik on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @02:23AM (#22244713)

They're wearing a veil that covers the entire face though. Eyes included- I assume a very thin see-through veil.

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Re:Using neural networks to upscale a famous 1896 video to 4... by azepoi on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @04:09AM (#22245178)

yes it's a see-through veil to protect their faces from the sun. Like this https://www.dhgate.com/product/wholesale-fashion-foldable-su... or http://www.coastalchrome.ca/womens-sun-hats-wkmovizpxj-6/abu...

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Re:Using neural networks to upscale a famous 1896 video to 4... by Udik on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @05:37AM (#22245608)

Of course, sunscreen will be invented only in 1936!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunscreen#History

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Re:Using neural networks to upscale a famous 1896 video to 4... by scawf on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @03:55AM (#22245114)

I would question the "even today" part..

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Re:Using neural networks to upscale a famous 1896 video to 4... by staz on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @02:10AM (#22244662)

it doesn't seem so in the original video for me

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