From the excellent "Two Minute Papers" YouTube channel, a discussion of a paper titled "DeepRemaster: Temporal Source-Reference Attention Networks for Comprehensive Video Enhancement," that demonstrates the results of a neural network that fixes and colorizes aged, blurry, scratchy films.
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Feb 8, 2020
Neural network restores and colorizes old movies
Machine learning app turns face sketches into realististic photos
University researchers from Hong Kong and China created an application called DeepFaceDrawing that “allows users with little training in drawing to produce high-quality images from rough or even incomplete freehand sketches.” Image: YouTube
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Web-based sketching app uses machine learning to detect penises
If a website called Do Not Draw a Penis senses that you are trying to sketch a penis it will erase it. Otherwise, it attempts to describe what you are drawing. It’s pretty easy to sneak a penis in by having it after you draw something it identifies.
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This algorithm coins new words every time you click
Thomas Dimson used the GPT-2 language model to make a website that creates a new word every time you refresh the page. Some of them are really good — I could imagine them entering the lexicon.
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The ClearUP can whisk away sinus pain from allergies in just 5 minutes
Allergies are brutal, affecting about 30 percent of all American adults. While many only saddle sufferers with mild irritations like coughing, sneezing, a runny nose or watering eyes, some symptoms can be even more intrusive and significantly more painful. Sinus pressure is one of those unholy side effects, causing a pain that can stretch from […]
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This 8-inch Japanese Style chef's knife might be your next step toward true culinary mastery
“I probably use my chef’s knives more than any other tool in the kitchen.” – Bobby Flay, celebrity chef Cooking at home has taken on a whole new life in the wake of COVID-19, and even with restaurants slowly reopening across the US, there’s heavy reason to suspect that more of us preparing more meals […]
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This app keeps all your online information safe and encrypted and keeps you from forgetting passwords
More than half of you think the best way to manage your passwords is to just keep ‘em safely stashed away in your own noggin. Meanwhile, there are also bunches of you that favor saving passwords in your browser, putting them in a spreadsheet or just writing them down on a piece of paper or […]
