{"id":25112,"date":"2016-04-28T04:47:40","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T11:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/these-old-black-and-white-photos-were-colorized"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:26:43","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:26:43","slug":"these-old-black-and-white-photos-were-colorized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/these-old-black-and-white-photos-were-colorized","title":{"rendered":"These old black-and-white photos were colorized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/these-old-black-and-white-photos-were-colorized.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Waseda University in Tokyo have <a href=\"http:\/\/hi.cs.waseda.ac.jp\/~iizuka\/projects\/colorization\/data\/colorization_sig2016.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">created a way to realistically colorize<\/a> black-and-white photos without any human intervention for the first time ever. The team\u2019s approach is based on convolutional neural networks \u2014 a type of machine learning <a href=\"http:\/\/deeplearning.net\/tutorial\/lenet.html\" target=\"_blank\">originally inspired by the visual cortex of a cat<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\" \" class=\"\" data-chorus-asset-id=\"6397119\" data-original=\"https:\/\/cdn3.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_asset\/file\/6397119\/Screen_Shot_2016-04-27_at_1.53.19_PM.0.png\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/these-old-black-and-white-photos-were-colorized2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/4\/27\/11519272\/these-old-black-and-white-photos-were-colorized-by-artificial\">http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/4\/27\/11519272\/these-old-black-a...artificial<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Waseda University in Tokyo have created a way to realistically colorize black-and-white photos without any human intervention for the first time ever. The team\u2019s approach is based on convolutional neural networks \u2014 a type of machine learning originally inspired by the visual cortex of a cat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25112"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61947,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25112\/revisions\/61947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}