{"id":11585,"date":"2020-02-18T09:44:49","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T17:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=11585"},"modified":"2020-02-18T10:39:31","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T18:39:31","slug":"ameliorer-is-the-new-enhance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/18\/ameliorer-is-the-new-enhance\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Am\u00e9liorer!&#8221; is the new &#8220;Enhance!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve long heard that 19th-century audiences would faint or jump out of their seats upon seeing gripping, O.G. content like &#8220;Train Enters Station.&#8221; If that&#8217;s true, imagine the blown minds that would result from this upgraded footage. Colossal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2020\/02\/ai-upgrades-classic-film\/?mc_cid=61f655f1ac&amp;mc_eid=b34f0e41ae\">writes<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Shiryaev first used Topaz Lab\u2019s&nbsp;Gigapixel AI&nbsp;to upgrade the film\u2019s resolution to 4K, followed by Google\u2019s&nbsp;DAIN, which he used to create and add frames to the original file, bringing it to 60 frames per second.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Check out the original&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (1896) - LOUIS LUMIERE - L&#039;Arrivee d&#039;un Train a La Ciotat\" width=\"604\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RjtXXypztyw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and the enhanced version:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"[4k, 60 fps] Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (The Lumi\u00e8re Brothers, 1896)\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3RYNThid23g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Update: Conceptually related:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">there\u2019s an app called remini that enhances your blurry pictures &amp; i\u2019m never taking anything but macbook selfies ever again <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KrRbcO4Ndp\">pic.twitter.com\/KrRbcO4Ndp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; zahra (@zhashx) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zhashx\/status\/1229067955251613698?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 16, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/RjtXXypztyw\">YouTube<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve long heard that 19th-century audiences would faint or jump out of their seats upon seeing gripping, O.G. content like &#8220;Train Enters Station.&#8221; If that&#8217;s true, imagine the blown minds that would result from this upgraded footage. Colossal writes, Shiryaev first used Topaz Lab\u2019s&nbsp;Gigapixel AI&nbsp;to upgrade the film\u2019s resolution to 4K, followed by Google\u2019s&nbsp;DAIN, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11585"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11585"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11625,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11585\/revisions\/11625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}