I’ve long heard that 19th-century audiences would faint or jump out of their seats upon seeing gripping, O.G. content like “Train Enters Station.” If that’s true, imagine the blown minds that would result from this upgraded footage. Colossal writes,
Shiryaev first used Topaz Lab’s Gigapixel AI to upgrade the film’s resolution to 4K, followed by Google’s DAIN, which he used to create and add frames to the original file, bringing it to 60 frames per second.
Check out the original…
…and the enhanced version:
Update: Conceptually related:
there’s an app called remini that enhances your blurry pictures & i’m never taking anything but macbook selfies ever again pic.twitter.com/KrRbcO4Ndp
— zahra (@zhashx) February 16, 2020
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that’s pretty impressive it seems to occasionally create some kind of weird motion blending artifacts though.
Wow that’s amazing!! Can he upgrade some 1990’s VHS footage I have?!?!