Great work : Decrappification, DeOldification, and Super Resolution

Jeremy, @jsa169 and Uri Manor (Salk Institute) just presented at Facebook F8 the results of their collaboration. What they have done is really worth reading, watching and studying deeply.

A deep learning method implemented in fastai that can give new life to very old movies : Decrappification, DeOldification, and Super Resolution

Talk at F8

Very well done!!

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Thanks @fabris! I’ll be around to answer questions. Maybe not right away but I’ll check up!

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Jason was kind enough to answer a few questions, share his motivation behind DeOldify with me:

@fabris could you please link this in the OP?

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Thanks @jsa169 - and I got your code working on Windows 10. With FastAI 52 and manually building a Conda environment. Just tried some old stills so far - as your saw on Twitter - and here is another one -

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Very nice work indeed. The blogpost was very informative. For the next stage, I wonder if incorporating object detection/semantic segmentation might help with the color issues like you cannot have zombie legs/hands.

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