#Colorize old photo skin

For exampleMyhertiage colours most uniforms blue but British soldiers wore green. It can’t make a choice as such because it only has a set of rules to follow. How can AI research the photo to find out what era, then what location? From here what colour object should be based upon known information and known facts.

#Colorize old photo skin

How can it tell the exact skin tone of a face or colour of a suit jacket or uniform? It is nigh on impossible to detect where one object stops and another starts.Įven more difficult is historic colorizing. Will it ever be able to tell the species of plants and therefore their correct colours.

In the future, AI has a long way to get past identifying faces and shapes of bricks. Even more tricky is to pick the correct lighting and to pick the scene apart to understand where the light is coming from, what time of day it might be by shadows and change the tones and colour of light accordingly. We have already seen how difficult it is to colour foliage. This presents an even more complex situation. What if the bricks are damaged or stained or have moss or lichen growing on them. Depending on what geographical location the building is, the brick varies in colour and type of materials. For example, it appears to detect bricks and makes them red or brown. AI does not make choices we humans can make. Many companies now offer this AI service but all have major flaws which I’ll discuss below. These include vanceAI and Hotpot which turn out really terrible results. Other offerings are out there but so far all colours spill out into each other with ill-defined edges.

Photoshop neural filter colouring failure Avoid this one for now, maybe future versions will be better! It can’t distinguish between plants and buildings or people and plants and is a total mess. After applying this filter to our garden scene it is far worse than any of the others. The 2022 version of Photoshop comes with “Neural Filters” one of which is “Colorize”. Much talked about in May 2018 to be released in a few months, but not seen it yet! We can look forward to trying this out when it is released soon. The videos show it in action (Google – “colourize with Google photos” ) to find all there is to read. So far though I have not seen this feature included in any existing version of the app. Google has commented on and showed videos of their “Google Photos” app with an inbuilt feature that will “colorize” old black and white photos. The colours are still bleeding over and missing the woman in the bushes altogether. I ran the same image through MyHeritage and the results are different but no better. Knowing what flowers should be what colour and determining Ivy from another type of creeping vine or where twigs should be brown, not green, are all big challenges for AI.įor 2022 there is no real change with AI colouring. For historically correct colouring I doubt this will ever work.

In the same area as the original 2018 colourise.sg image the new AI has improved and there is less colour bleeding over the foliage and people, there is still a fair way to go yet. In 2020 what is the colouring AI like now?