Inspiration
We wanted to watch old black and white tv shows in color
What it does
Uses an AI colorization API to individually colorize the frames of a black and white video
How I built it
For the first 12 hours, we tried building our own colorization algorithm. The idea was to detect items and shapes in a black and white frame, and then use Clarifai to find similar items in color, and then map the colors on the color items to the black and white frames. We made good progress on this, but not enough, and decided to simply Google if something similar already existed. Thankfully, it did, and we started using that to individually colorize the frames of black and white videos with OpenCV.
Challenges I ran into
OpenCV had a little bit of a learning curve, and took a few hours to get used to
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
We colorized a few 2-second clips!
What I learned
We need to plan things better :|
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