{"id":13322,"date":"2020-08-26T08:11:44","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T15:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=13322"},"modified":"2020-08-26T08:12:27","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T15:12:27","slug":"colorized-1902-footage-of-a-german-flying-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/26\/colorized-1902-footage-of-a-german-flying-train\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorized 1902 footage of a German &#8220;flying train&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure what&#8217;s most bonkers: the existence of this vehicle at the turn of the last century; its continued existence &amp; operation ~120 years and two world wars later; or the advances in machine learning that allow this level of film restoration &amp; enhancement:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>Denis Shiryaev of&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/neural.love\/\" target=\"_blank\">Neural Love<\/a>&nbsp;then took the original footage and used a neural network to upscale it to 4K. He also colorized it, stabilized it, slowed it down to better represent real-time, and boosted the frame rate to 60fps.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out the results:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"[60 fps] The Flying Train, Germany, 1902\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EQs5VxNPhzk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"420\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/flugentram.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13323\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/flugentram.jpg 800w, http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/flugentram-300x158.jpg 300w, http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/flugentram-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"536\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/flugen2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13324\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/flugen2.jpg 800w, http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/flugen2-300x201.jpg 300w, http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/flugen2-768x515.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/2020\/08\/22\/colorized-1902-footage-of-a-flying-train-ride-through-a-german-town\/\">Via<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure what&#8217;s most bonkers: the existence of this vehicle at the turn of the last century; its continued existence &amp; operation ~120 years and two world wars later; or the advances in machine learning that allow this level of film restoration &amp; enhancement: Denis Shiryaev of&nbsp;Neural Love&nbsp;then took the original footage and used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13322"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13322"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13345,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13322\/revisions\/13345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}