Here's another round of colorizations using my latest unreleased DeOldify model. Photos are again from Reddit's r/TheWayWeWere (great source!)pic.twitter.com/bKwZsXVYTO
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Wow! That's insanely pretty! And I love how it gets lil details: socks for a kid, flowers for the dress... What would happen if you give it a pic with flags? Either state flags, or something like navy signal flags? Will is just spitball random solid colors, or?..
Thanks! It actually does get American flags right at least- I've seen that much. It clearly recognizes what those are and I know they're in the training set. It does do other flags -sometimes- and it's not random- there's other cues for color (optics rules it appears to learn).
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It would be interesting(/fun) to see what it does with flags. It flipped the color of the coffee can (orange instead of blue), so if it does that to flags, too, you might get some new alternate universe flags.
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Is there any conceivable way to provide a second “hint” image where you could draw a couple rough color splotches at key locations and it could steer toward those? Also may be interesting to see a version of this for comics.
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1/ Sure- that's exemplar based colorization and actually it seems more work has been done on that lately than the sort of fully automatic colorization I've been doing. The holy grail IMHO would be to combine both. I have ideas of what it might take to do that but it's not easy.
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Yep, American one is quite unique... Actually, it seems that the space of old flags in actual old photos wouldn't be that confusing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_national_flags … There are some BW-identical ones (say, Italy vs Ireland), but not that many. Most should be unique.
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Which is a pity, in a way :) If there were a bunch of flags that looked the same in B&W, one could check whether their colorization depends on the context (vegetation, clothes), thus uncovering a "nation" latent variable :)
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I have an update on our old discussion: you know what obvious thing is really underrepresented in the training set for (at least DeepAI's) deoldify? Soviet photos! :) Not surprisingly. But as a result, it doesn't know about Soviet flags. Like, all of this should be red :)pic.twitter.com/ESHOEp2a96
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All these flags should (obviously! :) be red too! But the model is completely oblivious of that :) Isn't it funny? It's like cultural bias; something, potentially, to be studied!pic.twitter.com/9MnIQj1h73
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