Chances are you've seen the famous short film ‘Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (France),’ by the Lumière Brothers at some point in your life. If not, the original 57-second clip, created in 1895, can be viewed above.
YouTube creator Denis Shiryaev used neural networks to upscale and resound the original black and white clip. His efforts resulted in a 4K/60p clip that is quite astounding. The absence of jerkiness and artifacts makes the arrival of the train that much more impactful and shows just how powerful machine learning has become. Watch Shiryaev's updated version, below:
You can find more of Shiryaev's work on his YouTube Channel.
no way would I want to be living in those time for a myriad of reasons, but one thing that does matter is that at least people back then cared enough about their personal appearance to be dressed nicely. We could all learn something from that.
True, but some sneakers are nice-looking too (and not sporty-looking), and don't necessarily destroy the impression of being well dressed, at least in my eyes.
Wow, the original vimeo video is so bad that i was reluctant to believem and indeed there are better videos than the vimeo one, so no, not impressed at all
PS: And I was using a 720p "original" video from Youtube. Imagine if you can get the original film rescanned. But hey we on't need it, because of AI, right? 😂
Lovely women's fashion and dresses from those days? Will that fashion also be restored someday? :) It looks like some of the women had masks. Did they have a coronavirus outbreak back then??? On a serious note, it's impressive to see that they had video, and of this quality, back in the 1800s. Charlie Chaplin's early-days (early 1900s) movies come to mind.
This shows how poorly humans can perceive the reality. Some parts just have to be convincing enough and the rest matters much less.
I can already see the horrible future when computer aided video forgery is used in propaganda. People are living in the lies more than ever and fight for it. At least it is more than telling nice stories from books.
Sorry left eye, but if you look at the comments that is another digital restoration.
It would be valid to show against this 4k version as a comparison of yesterdays best effort with today version.... Is it better? Is this actually news?
...only a restoration in terms of reducing scratches, flicker, frame jumping etc, normal tools that are available to us all.
It basically shows the original footage in the best way, no added 'fake' detail information, no fancy 'AI neural networks' involved - which I assume is the intention of the enhanced version in this article - that this is a minor revolution above results achieved previously with normal basic restoration techniques.
Neither the 240p version at the top, nor left eye's version, is anywhere near the original version. But of the two, left eye's version is closer to original.
This dpreview article is misleading because it seems to imply that the modified version came from the posted 240p version, and that is just not true at all.
can you do the same thing but make everyone have alien faces? But seriously, ten years ago, this would seem like magic. imagine what another ten years of development will be able to provide.
Yes, the original full resolution video I saw wasn't much worse than the upscale. They reduced the jitter and trimmed the frames to a standard rectangle and then the processing just looks like a sharpen filter. It requires more input of higher resolution source material to apply to the low resolution source material.
"Hi all! This video has recently been getting a lot of attention from the media (something of a shock to me). In some articles they are crediting me for having done something unique, but in my opinion this is unfair. Anyone can repeat this process with algorithms that are currently published on Github; all of them are in the video description. Credit should go to DIAN, Topaz AI, ESRGAN, Waifu2x, DeOldify, Anime 4K and other developers who are part of the worldwide ML-community and contributing to humanity by making these algorithms publicly available.
Thus, for future reference, you do not need to ask my permission to use this video; you can do with it whatever you want 💖 Welcome to the future, friends"
Well... It is sad that once great values are no longer part of "big business ethics". Isn't it? Politics is big business too these days. The good thing - there still folk like Denis, so there is hope.
I've been using Topaz AI on my stills since it first came out and thought of it immediately upon seeing the video. I love how it impacts many (not all) of my shots and am glad to see it with a video application.
"Intelligent, creative, fair, gracious -- an unworkable combination of qualities for a career in politics or big business. : )"
I'd say that most high-level politicians are intelligent and many of them pretty creative too. It's just that too many of them use there talents for other aims than common good.
This is amazing, look at the peoples clothing on the right, the lady with the plaid shawl, the women walking with the 2 children, the straw hats, the mens trousers, you can see all the fine detail, the lines in peoples faces. looking at people that were alive 125 years ago in such detail, very cool,
I was more impressed by what was achievable in 1895. 125 years, one would think we'd all be flying around in personal space cars by now like the Jetsons.
Just be glad we get to see into the past. These sorts of movies from a long ago era are gold to me. I could watch these all day. They guy has done a pretty impressive job on his own and even more impressive given the terrible quality of source material. No one said AI was magic, this is not CSI with Grissom waving his magic wand.
i wondering: and what? What is the news on that? He run thru some 'already looks great' restored footage some commercial, etc. avaliable upscaler, frame 'doubler'. And? He not do any restoration and so. He get a restored version of the footage from youtube downloaded clip (!). Joke. And upscaled. And... ? Result looks pretty plastic, not so great at all.
Note: is i see at first (with a little experience of old film restoration (Diamond)), the original restoration in the source material was also pretty safe, to keep balance the magic of the original footage (eg. not all top-noch all bump/motion stabilisation used, etc.) and the restoration.
things just fine, i also wondering, why you ask about my day in there, its a Photo forum, and why peoples like that question... Sometimes things in heads mixed up, sometimes peoples miss the point, where they here. in pub wit buddyes, or in photography forums/comments with not buddies...
This looks pretty bad. You can get way better more pleasing results out of Avisynth. I assume it's 60p because it was originally a 29.97 file with two fields, but I don't think the field blending is that simple to output to 60p because it was likely an 18fps file encapsulated in a 29.97 container. Regardless, as someone who primarily does film restoration, this hurts my heart. especially that stabilization.
I would need the original interlaced material. Get that to me and I will definitely restore this guy. I have some new scripts I've been waiting to try out too.
Side note, Topaz labs does the same over sharpen, gooey detail, as this guy did and you can use the free trial out and try it yourself. First you need to output a jpeg, dpx, or tiff sequence of the image though.
Geez brutal comments. It's OK to offer valid criticism without having to create something better yourself. Do folks make their own movie after seeing a bad one? Or make their own lens after buying a crappy one?
Thanks Urbex, I was just ultimately saying that this person did something they shouldn't have because it kinda goes against film tech and history.
For my company, even when a filmmaker is dead and can't approve our version, we get historians and relatives involved to make it accurate. We would never make a silent era film 60p or add so much stabilizer that the image is just jello.
I can't understand or see the need for 60p, which looks awful even when properly recorded. But the resolution increase, considering the rough quality of the original clip, is impressive.
Ehh, this looks terrible really. I'd imagine it would be far better to make a new scan from restored film rather than upscaling an already-compressed low-res digital version. No one wants old movies to look like motion-smoothed TVs before you disable that feature ;-)
Frame interpolation and a little enhancement might work well, but carrying it this far makes a really bad cartoon. Even on stills, Topaz AI is easy to overdo. It makes a marked improvement in images with consistently structured noise and good detail, but it fails (particularly when pushed beyond its limits) on any scene where the noise is greater than the detail whereas the human eye can extract detail below 0dB S/N.
Horrible! Terrible. The result is so obviously false that it hurts. Yes, you get more resolution and less noise. But - look at those faces. Are they aliens?
Amazing difference; the 4K version almost looks like b/w video from only a few years ago. I wonder if this is the same technology that was used to clean up the WW1 footage.
Impressive from where it came from. However, as to your comment, it does look like a new b/w video. Like a bunch of historical reenactors got together on the weekend.
Alright, when I hear neural network or machine learning, my eyes roll before I've finished the words. But this is legitimately amazing!!!
If there is an algorithm this good, I would think we should soon see a huge amount of crappy historical film given the same treatment and I can't wait.
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