This is amazing to me. My major was Digital Imaging Technology in 2005 and I remember doing this by hand in photoshop wondering if one day there would be a button for it.
I remember doing web animation back in 2000, and having to ink each penciled frame by hand, vectorizing the inked drawing and then coloring it in Flash. Now you can train a CNN to vector pencil drawings. Probably train a CNN to color everything too!
While I can see a lot of animation tasks being eliminated, I would like to imagine that they would hold onto some artists to spend some of that saved time embellishing and strengthening the quality of the final work.
But most of the heavy lifting will now be done with the press of a button. It's like Clarke said, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Magical times.
https://github.com/satoshiiizuka/siggraph2016_colorization
And is this not the dataset:
I'm really asking, because I've downloaded the project and skimmed the paper, but haven't had time to vet these assumptions. On the face of it, it seems everything is provided, but you've vetted it further and learned that isn't true?
anyone know why both papers share this seemingly arbitrary diagram style?
edit.. ahh, it's the same person