colornet
AI
image colorization neural network
SHOW HN2016
How HN took it
7 positive, 34 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 6 critical, out of 47 comments about the project. Thread score +0.06.
Idea: 4 for, 1 againstExecution: 2 for, 2 againstPerformance: 1 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Results look good and the colorized examples are impressive
From 3 comments
I'm colorblind and I can't tell the difference between the prediction and the GT. My coworker says that they have slight differences in some colors. Congrats, you wrote the first…
fmeyer on HNThe sky is blue, grass is green, trucks are red, and everything else is a shade of brown :-) pretty cool work!
new_hackers on HNI'd say the differences are very well expressed.
rimantas on HN
Objections
Repository has no license, so code is not clearly reusable
From 3 comments
The title says it's open source, but I couldn't actually see what the license is? (Maybe I missed it?)
SyneRyder on HNIt is open source. You can see the source. The license is no-license, so you can (only) fork it. That way, people can clone from your username instead of the original author,…
syockit on HNIn some countries, code is copyrighted by default unless the author specifies a different license or explicitly puts it into the public domain. Without a license (or asking the…
SyneRyder on HN
Berkeley colorization model gives better results with a simpler architecture
From 1 comment
These results: http://richzhang.github.io/colorization/ from Berkeley are much better than this model (and the code is open source as well). Furthermore, those better results…
argonaut on HN
Requests
Instructions on how to run the model on your own images
From 2 comments
Can we get some instructions on how to actually use this. I want to test it out on pictures from: https://www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolCool/
x5n1 on HNCan I try this out in images myself somehow?
mosselman on HN
Questions
How does it differ from the Berkeley colorization project?
From 1 comment
Yes - how do those two projects differ in their approach ?
liotier on HN
Does it color skin tones fairly across ethnicities?
From 2 comments
Agreed. I wonder how good this model is at filling the skin tone of someone. It would be sad if (for example) it turned everybody into white people or something like that. In…
gcr on HNI'd be interested to see what kind of hidden biases this might reveal, especially about people, e.g. skin tone, eye color, etc.
g_sch on HN
Alternatives named
Berkeley colorization project by Richard Zhang
From 2 comments
These results: http://richzhang.github.io/colorization/ from Berkeley are much better than this model (and the code is open source as well). Furthermore, those better results…
argonaut on HNAre you thinking of this project instead? http://richzhang.github.io/colorization/
astrosi on HN