[flsantos]

Interesting! If nowadays, pictures are colorized by hand in photoshop, it wouldn't be practical to colorize a full black and white movie. I guess this deep learning approach would solve this problem and colorize old black and white classic movies.

[zimpenfish]

I think colorising b&w movies must already be fairly practical given the size of this list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_black-and-white_films_...

[saip]

Agreed. I imagine this has applications in compression as well. You could stream a movie (or a football game) in black and white and enable each device to color it on the spot. A similar technique could also be done for HD/3D/VR.

[tzahola]

Or you can just broadcast the audio from the game and a neural net will synthesize the video on the fly. The possibilities are _endless_!

[roywiggins]

Coloring football uniforms might be nearly impossible though...

[zardo]

Yes, you provide a handful of full data keyframes and reconstruct the details of the stream from the middle out.

[kiliankoe]

That middle out compression has some fantastic Weissman scores I believe.

[mholmes680]

that is an amazing idea.

[WalterBright]

I'd like to see more than colorization. Consider the silent movie "Wings". Very high quality blu-rays are available of it. I would colorize it, remove the dialog cards and dub the dialog, then add foley sound effects and a music soundtrack!