Hi everybody! I’m a research engineer at the Mail.ru Group computer vision team. In this article, I’m going to tell a story of how we’ve created AI-based restoration project for old military photos. What is «photo restoration»? It consists of three steps:
- we find all the image defects: fractures, scuffs, holes;
- we inpaint the discovered defects, based on the pixel values around them;
- we colorize the image.
Further, I’ll describe every step of photo restoration and tell you how we got our data, what nets we trained, what we accomplished, and what mistakes we made.
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