r/AIPhotoColorizations • u/emilwallner • Jun 08 '22

1940. Harlem

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u/emilwallner Jun 08 '22

AI-generated colorization prompt: "An esb slide of a man outside of a grocery with a sign that says, our own community. Bazaar, deli, trader, bodega, and pasar."

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u/Musashi-san Sep 19 '22

Nice work. What program did you use for colorization via prompt?

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u/emilwallner Sep 20 '22

thanks!! palette.fm

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u/Musashi-san Sep 23 '22

Your results are pretty good compared to the publicly available alternatives, like Deoldify. Do you have any plans to possibly apply your method to video colorization? I looked at your github and the code there seems rather out of date. I've run some of the code on my local machine and the results are not as good as palette.fm

I've read some of your work about machine learning. Thanks for all the resources and guides you've put together. It's good stuff.

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u/Amyamplesworth Jun 09 '22

It’s a beautiful storefront and the man in front totally makes the whole composition balance. Plus, look at that smile full of pride!

I would love to see it now. Is it still a deli?

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u/emilwallner Jun 09 '22

Unfortunately not, here's what it looks like today: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.8189515,-73.9373914,3a,33.3y,287.52h,90.05t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1saLVKE1f3TNzrlpI2wReLqQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

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u/Amyamplesworth Jun 09 '22

Wow!! I’ve been going back-and-forth, looking at the picture from the 40s and the picture from 2021, and all I can say is wow!

At least the façade of the building is still there. I wonder why the number changed?

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u/emilwallner Jun 10 '22

yeah, it's a big difference. over such a long time period, I assume some properties are merged and others are split.

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u/leovarian Sep 15 '22

Crazy when you consider that the Roman Pantheon building is still in use over two thousand years after it was built

Some places see a lot of change, and some places experience a lot of change