When the `` world's oldest movie '' more than 120 years ago is reborn as 4K image quality60 fps, it looks like this

A film produced by the Lumière brothers in 1895 and released commercially in 1896 is ' Arrival of a train to La Ciotat station '. A movie has been released that has been upgraded to 4K image quality / 60 fps video by deep learning using neural network of 'arrival of train to La Ciotat station' known as one of the world's oldest movies.

Someone used neural networks to upscale a famous 1896 video to 4k quality | Ars Technica
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The following movie shows the conventional 'arrival of a train to La Ciotat station'.

L'Arrivée d'un train à La Ciotat (Louis Lumière, 1896)-YouTube


It is a short image of the steam locomotive arriving at the station, it is a recorded image rather than a movie for modern people, but it seems shocking for the end of the 19th century when there was almost no video, The audience screamed and ran away as they approached. ' The 'arrival of a train to La Ciotat station' is filmed on 35mm film with an aspect ratio of 1.33: 1 (4: 3) and 16 frames per second (fps).

And here is the 'arrival of a train to La Ciotat Station', reborn with a high resolution of 4K / 60 fps. The top and bottom of the screen are trimmed to make the aspect ratio 16: 9, but anyway the motion that is null by frame interpolation is characteristic.

[4k, 60 fps] Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (The Lumière Brothers, 1896)-YouTube


By moving the purple bar displayed on the image below left and right, you can compare the conventional image quality (left) with the 4K image quality (right).

Compared to the scene of the steam locomotive sliding on the platform, the 4K image quality shows the texture of the gravel and steam locomotive laid on the railway tracks clearly.

Passengers getting off the train with luggage. The slight noise seen on the clothes has been removed, and the roughness of the screen, such as that seen on women's skin, has been slightly reduced.

According to contributor Dennis Sylyaev, upscaling to 4K image quality uses an algorithm called Gigapixel AI , and interpolation from 16 fps to 60 fps is published by Google `` Depth-Aware Video Frame Interpolation ( Video considering subject depth) Frame interpolation) '.

In addition, the following movie, which automatically colored the image upscaled by Mr. Sylyaev with an algorithm, has also been released by volunteers.

[DeOldified] Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (The Lumière Brothers, 1896)-YouTube