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Colorize Old Photos with DeOldify

59 points by aliabd 6y ago

FriendlyNormie 6y ago
I singlehandedly gracefully handled my own site reaching more than Alexa 300 levels of traffic and you morons consistently can’t even handle a handful of visits from the front page of this little site. All of you people on HN are fucking pathetic amateurs. I’m better than all of you.
aliabd 6y ago
Built this interface using the Gradio[1] library. Forked the DeOldify[2] model on github. [1]: https://github.com/gradio-app/gradio https://github.com/gradio-app/gradio [2]: https://github.com/jantic/DeOldify https://github.com/jantic/DeOldify
- DarthGhandi 6y ago
  Any chance of sorting out your landing page? It's still hanging 12 hours after the original comments here.
krmmalik 6y ago
I clicked the link but keep being met with a blank screen? Maybe it's not optimised for mobile?
- hoistbypetard 6y ago
  I'm seeing the same on a 30" desktop screen... It sounds interesting, so I'm bookmarking to look later.
  - mkarliner 6y ago
    Same here, Mojave and Chrome.
etaioinshrdlu 6y ago
It seems to have been met with the Hug of Death? (I'm seeing a 504 gateway timeout) Also, the first link on the DeOldify github page [1], runs much quicker than 30-40 seconds so something seems less than optimal about this implementation. [1] https://deepai.org/machine-learning-model/colorizer https://deepai.org/machine-learning-model/colorizer
- quicklime 6y ago
  I'm getting errors too, it does look like the site is down. Thanks for the deepai.org link. Running this on photos from yesterday's 1940s.nyc post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24152108 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24152108) is really fun!
kanobo 6y ago
It's down. Not sure if this is the same, but there's this page to try DeOldify online: https://www.myheritage.com/incolor https://www.myheritage.com/incolor
- foxfired 6y ago
  oh that is so mean. They let you upload first, then they ask you to sign up to see it. There goes one more fake email in their database.
  - kanobo 6y ago
    sorry, fwiw I would not have posted it if they required you to click on a verify link in the email.
  - m-p-3 6y ago
    You could sign up to Firefox Relay (Beta) for such a scenario in the future.
- BlueMacaw 6y ago
  This is by far the best online image colorization I’ve used; it was offered free back in the early days of the quarantine and I was impressed by the speed and quality. It’s not professional photoshopper quality, but a beginner can easily tweak the finished product into skilled amateur quality.
davmar 6y ago
i love the name "DeOldify"
obilgic 6y ago
Can someone merge this with https://1940s.nyc/ https://1940s.nyc/ :)
peterburkimsher 6y ago
In 1937, my grandpa went on a cycling trip through Germany, Austria, and Italy, then back to the UK. My mum made a photo website about it, including links to some hotels that are still operating. http://drmarionb.free.fr/1937CyclingTour/ http://drmarionb.free.fr/1937CyclingTour/ Some of these photos look amazing when colourised using DeOldify, via MyHeritage. I hope that my mum will update the page soon with the colourised versions side by side!

59 points by aliabd 6y ago

I singlehandedly gracefully handled my own site reaching more than Alexa 300 levels of traffic and you morons consistently can’t even handle a handful of visits from the front page of this little site. All of you people on HN are fucking pathetic amateurs. I’m better than all of you.

aliabd 6y ago

Built this interface using the Gradio[1] library. Forked the DeOldify[2] model on github. [1]: https://github.com/gradio-app/gradio https://github.com/gradio-app/gradio [2]: https://github.com/jantic/DeOldify https://github.com/jantic/DeOldify

DarthGhandi 6y ago
Any chance of sorting out your landing page? It's still hanging 12 hours after the original comments here.

krmmalik 6y ago

I clicked the link but keep being met with a blank screen? Maybe it's not optimised for mobile?

hoistbypetard 6y ago
I'm seeing the same on a 30" desktop screen... It sounds interesting, so I'm bookmarking to look later.
- mkarliner 6y ago
  Same here, Mojave and Chrome.

etaioinshrdlu 6y ago

It seems to have been met with the Hug of Death? (I'm seeing a 504 gateway timeout) Also, the first link on the DeOldify github page [1], runs much quicker than 30-40 seconds so something seems less than optimal about this implementation. [1] https://deepai.org/machine-learning-model/colorizer https://deepai.org/machine-learning-model/colorizer

quicklime 6y ago
I'm getting errors too, it does look like the site is down. Thanks for the deepai.org link. Running this on photos from yesterday's 1940s.nyc post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24152108 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24152108) is really fun!

kanobo 6y ago

It's down. Not sure if this is the same, but there's this page to try DeOldify online: https://www.myheritage.com/incolor https://www.myheritage.com/incolor

foxfired 6y ago
oh that is so mean. They let you upload first, then they ask you to sign up to see it. There goes one more fake email in their database.
- kanobo 6y ago
  sorry, fwiw I would not have posted it if they required you to click on a verify link in the email.
- m-p-3 6y ago
  You could sign up to Firefox Relay (Beta) for such a scenario in the future.
BlueMacaw 6y ago
This is by far the best online image colorization I’ve used; it was offered free back in the early days of the quarantine and I was impressed by the speed and quality. It’s not professional photoshopper quality, but a beginner can easily tweak the finished product into skilled amateur quality.

davmar 6y ago

i love the name "DeOldify"

obilgic 6y ago

Can someone merge this with https://1940s.nyc/ https://1940s.nyc/ :)

peterburkimsher 6y ago

In 1937, my grandpa went on a cycling trip through Germany, Austria, and Italy, then back to the UK. My mum made a photo website about it, including links to some hotels that are still operating. http://drmarionb.free.fr/1937CyclingTour/ http://drmarionb.free.fr/1937CyclingTour/ Some of these photos look amazing when colourised using DeOldify, via MyHeritage. I hope that my mum will update the page soon with the colourised versions side by side!