Colour by numbers: colouring images and video with AI
Hang around YouTube long enough these days and it won’t be long before you run up against videos claiming to be new colourised versions of film shot back at the turn of the 20th century. The videos are often up-scaled to 4K-resolution and with excellent smoothing techniques that your brain says can’t be 10 years old, let alone
120. However, it’s all the work of new machine learning techniques, one of which is the popular ‘Deoldify’. It’s not perfect, but can do a pretty decent job. This month, we’ll show you how to colourise black-and-white photos for free.
Machine learning to the rescue!
Artificial Intelligence or ‘AI’ is
