{"id":11706,"date":"2020-03-11T07:30:53","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T14:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=11706"},"modified":"2020-03-11T08:57:14","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T15:57:14","slug":"google-ai-helps-upscale-lunar-rover-grand-prix-to-4k-and-60fps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/11\/google-ai-helps-upscale-lunar-rover-grand-prix-to-4k-and-60fps\/","title":{"rendered":"Google AI helps upscale &#8220;Lunar Rover Grand Prix&#8221; to 4K and 60fps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So cool! I\u2019d never actually watched these Apollo 16 clips on their own, unedited &amp; with original dialog intact.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"[4k, 60 fps] Apollo 16 Lunar Rover &quot;Grand Prix&quot; (1972 April 21, Moon)\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/az9nFrnCK60?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>PetaPixel <a href=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/2020\/03\/05\/footage-of-the-apollo-16-lunar-rover-grand-prix-upscaled-to-4k-and-60fps\/\">writes<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For this particular project, Shiryaev used the stabilized version of the footage that NASA itself released in July of 2019 as a baseline. He then fed it through the same AI software that&nbsp;he\u2019s been using&nbsp;to upscale all of the videos he\u2019s released: Google\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/wenbobao\/dain\">DAIN<\/a>&nbsp;interpolate frames and achieve 60fps, and&nbsp;Topaz Labs\u2019 Gigapixel AI&nbsp;to upscale each frame and achieve 4K resolution.&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More about the mission from NASA:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Apollo 16   Nothing So Hidden  - 5th Moon Landing \/ Astronauts John Young, Charlie Duke\" width=\"604\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mlD0ogq8tVU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/az9nFrnCK60\">YouTube 1<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mlD0ogq8tVU\">2<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So cool! I\u2019d never actually watched these Apollo 16 clips on their own, unedited &amp; with original dialog intact. PetaPixel writes, For this particular project, Shiryaev used the stabilized version of the footage that NASA itself released in July of 2019 as a baseline. He then fed it through the same AI software that&nbsp;he\u2019s been [&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\/11706"}],"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=11706"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11719,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11706\/revisions\/11719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}