A restored and colorized historical film of Paris from the late 1890s, enhanced using neural networks for upscaling and colorization.
Upscaled with neural networks footage from the dawn of film taken in Belle Époque-era Paris, France from 1896-1900.
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✔ FPS boosted to 60 frames per second;
✔ Image resolution boosted up to 4k – with digital artifacts, but some parts are improved noticeable, I'm preparing new dataset for that process, 4k is till in beta;
✔ Improved video sharpness;
✔ Colorized – I'm still unsure about it, but regarding to high request from the subscribers I decided to use DeOldify NN again on this video. If you don't like how DeOldify doing colorization, please let me know in the comments, I will upload b&w version and put a link here.
⚠ Please, be aware that colorization colors are not real and fake, colorization was made only for the ambiance and do not represent real historical data.
Source video (with ambiance sound) – please subscribe to guy jones channel, he is doing an amazing job in ambiance sound adding:
youtu.be/NjDclfAFRB4
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Please, keep in mind that 4k resolution playback mostly not available on the phones.
#Paris #1890 #upscale #old
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What people say. Shared as a fascinating historical artifact and a demonstration of AI-powered video restoration.
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