DeOldify VS Bringing-Old-Photos-Back-to-Life

The old method is simple. All you need to do is running DeOldify with a colab notebook. Then you can pick any neural networks you want for upscale and frame interpolation. A lot of people use dain-app, but I find rife faster and easier to use.

Today, we’re talking to a very special “Software Guy, currently digging deep into GANs” — The author of DeOldify: Jason Antic.

I think the novel and interesting tech is still happening, its just that without the colorful ads for it on TV, and without the software being packaged up and sold with pretty box art that you can physically hold, it doesn't feel as much like a capital-E Experience. It's probably the Internet's fault that we don't do things like that anymore, but the upside is that we now have access to so many ideas and applications from all over, even ones that aren't commercially viable.

Some that look exciting to me are: an AI that lets you animate still photos realistically [1], a simple website that guides you to discover new parks, eateries, and other places near you [2], an AI that colorizes old black-and-white photos/video [3], a Street View style map of the game world from "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild", with some 1st person 360 degree photos [4], and a tiny game engine that lets you distribute your whole game physically via printed QR codes [5].

If marketing and graphic design people ever felt like getting together to do some 'side projects', I vote that they should make print ads for apps/websites that they like :)

[1] https://github.com/AliaksandrSiarohin/first-order-model

[2] https://randomlocation.xyz (https://randomlocation.xyz/help.txt for customization)

[3] https://github.com/jantic/DeOldify

[4] https://nassimsoftware.github.io/zeldabotwstreetview/

[5] https://github.com/kesiev/rewtro

This is an Extension that integrates Bringing Old Photos Back to Life, an old photo restoration algorithm, into the Automatic1111 Webui, as suggested by this post. User can process a photo, then send it to img2img or Inpaint for further refinement.

Is there anyone in this subreddit that could make an Auto1111 extension out of this: https://github.com/microsoft/Bringing-Old-Photos-Back-to-Life

This seems to do exactly the same and is the original source of the scratch detection model that is used in OPs version.

Thanks, if you are taking requests :-) - The inclusion of (or integration with) a facility like this https://github.com/microsoft/Bringing-Old-Photos-Back-to-Life would be very nice !

Why a GAN specifically? There's Bringing Old Photos Back to Life for example, but it uses VAEs, not a GAN.

Thank you. Photo-restore + Deoldify + Animegan + Rife + 4K upscale

Bringing Old Photos to Life

I was recently looking at the microsoft/Bringing-Old-Photos-Back-to-Life repo to use on some old photo. While there is no doubt that the models were created by very smart data scientists, the repo is not very well organized and cumbersome to setup. I think data scientists coming from math/statistics background may not be familiar with software design best practices, and somehow just gets by with infrastructure setup.