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This is what it looks like when a neural net colorizes photos
We've seen the horrific results of Google's servers taking acid and interpreting photos with DeepDream, but what happens when a neural network does something altogether less terrifying with snapshots? It'll go all Ted Turner and colorize black and white images with what it thinks are the right chroma values based on analyzing countless similar photos. At least that's what a team of University of California at Berkeley researchers experimented with in their paper Colorful Image Colorization (PDF).
