Watch this amazing AI-enhanced montage of Lumière films — historians will hate it though

YouTuber Denis Shiryaev has unveiled his most spectacular AI video restoration yet: a new montage of footage shot by the Lumière brothers. Shiryaev spent months using machine learning to colorize, upscale, and enhance a collection of films by the French cinema pioneers. He began by using an algorithm developed by his company, Neural Love, to remove duplicate frames from the footage and restore the film’s original frame rate. “This is a crucial step to achieve the effect of fluid movement when we do a version of the video at 60 frames per second (fps),” Shiryaev explained on YouTube. [Read: Meet the 4 scale-ups using data to…

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