DeOldify
Simply put, the mission of this project is to colorize and restore old images. I'll get into the details in a bit, but first let's get to the pictures! BTW – most of these source images originally came from the r/TheWayWeWere subreddit, so credit to them for finding such great photos.

Some of many results- These are pretty typical!

gobshite wrote:But think about the first one. Why purple? Why not cream? Who/what is selecting its "right" answers from its "wrong" answers?

BlackBart wrote:

gobshite wrote:But think about the first one. Why purple? Why not cream? Who/what is selecting its "right" answers from its "wrong" answers?

I think it uses imageNet (http://www.image-net.org) as a learning tool - if you search 'tutu' or 'ballet' it shows some examples which tend to be pink/purple-ish.

Adco wrote:

BlackBart wrote:

gobshite wrote:But think about the first one. Why purple? Why not cream? Who/what is selecting its "right" answers from its "wrong" answers?

I think it uses imageNet (http://www.image-net.org) as a learning tool - if you search 'tutu' or 'ballet' it shows some examples which tend to be pink/purple-ish.

But how does it know it's a tutu that has to be coloured in? It could be a curtain or a rug. Do you have to "tell" the program what is in the photo first and then it chooses the colour or does it recognise objects?

It would be interesting to see what it does with a wedding dress.

BlackBart wrote:

Adco wrote:

BlackBart wrote:

gobshite wrote:But think about the first one. Why purple? Why not cream? Who/what is selecting its "right" answers from its "wrong" answers?

I think it uses imageNet (http://www.image-net.org) as a learning tool - if you search 'tutu' or 'ballet' it shows some examples which tend to be pink/purple-ish.

But how does it know it's a tutu that has to be coloured in? It could be a curtain or a rug. Do you have to "tell" the program what is in the photo first and then it chooses the colour or does it recognise objects?

It would be interesting to see what it does with a wedding dress.

As far as I can tell it uses crowdsourced metadata to classify the image, then it probably bases the colouring on images in that subset that tend to look similar.

If you search for bride, it tends to bring up white dresses that look triangular-ish, so if it sees a triangular-ish shape it'll probably colour it white.