Colorizing black and white photos and video

[Baldeagle]

Not much else to do on Christmas day....
I discovered a website that is a tool for colorizing black and white photos and video, Deoldify, and gave it a try.
https://deoldify.ai/
There are some tutorial videos online about how to make it work, and there seems to be a following on YouTube, some interesting stuff.

Clearly it does have its limitations, as shown by these photos from a couple of Mark's recent threads






It seems to have missed some of the brighter colors like the squadron emblem on the FW-190 and the roundels in the background, but I also did some old family photos and they came out pretty well.

Also tried it on a video of Wilbur Wright flying in Italy in 1909
Original:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98Rk0Evd7B4

And colorized:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh7Kb4j5tZg&t=26s

Interesting to play with anyway-


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[Pogo]

I found all that really interesting, BE, thanks for posting!

And there's just no question about it, it's always great to see Will piloting a Wright Flyer, colorized or otherwized...

[Brenden S]

There is also this website
https://demos.algorithmia.com/colorize-photos

Also Photoshop has this now. It doesn't work as well as they advertised for aircraft.