Panorama of New York in 1905: Spectacularly enhanced and colorized using the latest A.I. technology!

Following our recent, very successful restoration work about French refugees at the end of World War 1 in 1918 ( we decided to do some experiments to see what can be achieved with the latest video enhancer software based on Artificial Intelligence, A.I. For that purpose we used a very old film fragment from 1905 that shows a panorama of New York city, filmed from the Times building. As can be seen, the original footage is of poor quality. The film is wobbly, unsharp, not very clear and has an extreme amount of image noise. We went through the four steps that we normally use to enhance B&W film footage. This process is described in detail in the welcome video on my channel. However, as the fourth step we used the new A.I. enhancer and here is the result. The resolution of the footage was 480p, so we upscaled it to HD level of 1080p. This footage was still not motion-stable enough, probably due to the stabilizer not being able to properly recognize objects in the footage, due to the image noise. So we stabilized it for a second time. This time with more success. Finally, we wondered what would happen if the film would be processed for a second time by the new enhancer. This time the resolution was kept at 1080p. To our amazement the result was even better! The reason most likely is that the A.I. was able to better recognize all the objects in the video because of the preceeding enhancement steps. There was one more final step to do, namely to speed-correct the film and to use frame-interpolation to do so and thus make the motion even more smooth. At the end of the film the original version and the final enhanced version are shown side by side. We think that the results are spectacular and a stimulation to use this method often again in the near future. Let us know what you think in the comments and don’t forget to subscribe to my channel! Thanks for watching. Music: David Celeste & Trevor Kowalski Source: Time line 01:00 Hotel Hotel Spalding at 127 W. 43rd St. 2 years later, in 1906, 01:05 It changed to Hotel Woodstock, now Woodstock house is a nursing home near Time Square 01:20 View from Times Building 01:47 Bryant Park and New York Public Library Main Branch was under construction. 02:54 Church of St. Mary the Virgin in the heart of Times Square at 133-145 West 46th Street. 02:57 This church is still there, now historical landmark 03:48 Hippodrome Theater, double the size of the Metropolitan Opera, demolished in the 1930s 03:53 Algonquin Hotel. opened in 1902, still in operation