This Film From 1896 Was Up-Scaled To 4K Using AI-Denis Shiryaev used an AI on "Lumière Brothers’ The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station" and turned the 124-year-old black and white film footage, into a 4K 60fps video.
Film From 1896 Was Up-Scaled To 4K Using AI
Denis Shiryaev used an AI on "Lumière Brothers’ The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station" and turned the 124-year-old black and white film footage, into a 4K 60fps video.Film Titled "L’arrivée d’un train en gare de La Ciotat", which was released back in January 1896. In which a short 45-second clip which featured a train slowly chugging into a station.
The short 45-second clip is most famous for several urban legends regarding moviegoers running out of the theater during showings back in 1896, horrified that an actual train was about to come turning through the screen. Whether the film actually had that effect on early audiences may never be proven, but given how new and story the medium was, the short clip certainly would have been a unique experience to someone who’d never seen moving footage before.
However, The original film given how long ago it was shot, showed using excessive amounts of grain, soft focus, and a lack of color.
To upscale the original film, Denis Shiryaev combined two publically available algorithms: Gigapixel AI and DAIN.
To make the 124-year-old black and white film footage, into a 4K 60fps video.
Adding the AI the result is below:
The experimental AI results are far from perfect; Denis Shiryaev applies one of the many deep learning algorithms that can colorize black and white photos used to make this film as well, but the bright potential of these tools to enhance historical footage to increase its impact is just as exciting as the potential for it to be misused.
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