{"id":29018,"date":"2016-08-16T21:17:52","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T04:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/automatic-colorizing-bot-tries-to-colorize-a-black-and-white-video"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:55:17","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:55:17","slug":"automatic-colorizing-bot-tries-to-colorize-a-black-and-white-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/automatic-colorizing-bot-tries-to-colorize-a-black-and-white-video","title":{"rendered":"Automatic Colorizing Bot Tries to Colorize a Black and White Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tWdaMKKH5MI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Classic tv will never be the same.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Remember that amazing <a href=\"http:\/\/petapixel.com\/2016\/03\/31\/photoshop-future-may-able-auto-colorize-bw-photo\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">automatic colorizing algorithm<\/a> we told you about back in March? It was just put to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatimade.today\/two-weeks-of-colorizebot-conclusions-and-statistics\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow external noopener noreferrer\">an interesting test<\/a>. As a fun \u201cwhat if?\u201d hobbyist Amir Avni tried the neural network-powered colorizer on a B&amp;W video.<\/p>\n<p>It should be obvious that this isn\u2019t a simple transition. To go from colorizing a still image by learning from thousands of other images online is one thing, to do it 24 times per second, smoothly, is entirely another.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a bonus, I took the bot\u2019s algorithm and started testing it on some video-clips,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatimade.today\/two-weeks-of-colorizebot-conclusions-and-statistics\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow external noopener noreferrer\">writes Avni<\/a>. \u201cOf course the results aren\u2019t perfect since it was trained on photos and not on a batch of photos, but the results are still interesting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/petapixel.com\/2016\/08\/15\/watch-automatic-colorizing-bot-try-colorize-black-white-video\/\">http:\/\/petapixel.com\/2016\/08\/15\/watch-automatic-colorizing-b...ite-video\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Classic tv will never be the same. Remember that amazing automatic colorizing algorithm we told you about back in March? It was just put to an interesting test. As a fun \u201cwhat if?\u201d hobbyist Amir Avni tried the neural network-powered colorizer on a B&amp;W video. It should be obvious that this isn\u2019t a simple transition. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29018","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40083,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29018\/revisions\/40083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}