Colored Singapore in 1930s 三十年代老派新加坡(AI高清上色)

For original black and wihte footage licensing please visit copyright owner website: https://www.globalimageworks.com/stoc...
This video was AI colored and enhanced. Two AI tools were used:
1) Topaz Video Enhance AI. The software provides AI based solution for enhancing the resolution of (low quality) videos. I used this tool to increase the resolution from the original 480*360 to 960*720, i.e. HD quality. The effect of the tool is beyond amazing and Topaz Lab offers free trial (for the first 30 days I guess). You can find more details and download the software here: https://topazlabs.com/video-enhance-ai/
2) Open source AI black and white video coloring solution. I used Deoldify. You can find the details on github here: https://github.com/jantic/DeOldify. You could run Deoldify with Python on your own PC (which needs quite some efforts to set up the correct local environment and debugging), or simply run it on Google’s cloud based machine learning environment Colab. You just need a google account to access Colab, it is virtually free. The Deoldify python code for Colab is here: https://colab.research.google.com/git...

The original black and white 480*360 footage “Singapore - Crossroads of the East 1938” can be found here:    • Singapore - Crossroads of the East  . The film was directed by André de la Varre, in association with Paul Devlin. Please note the colors rendered in the enhanced video should not be treated as the true historical colors, but a best guess by the AI algorithm.

To find the exact location of the places in the footage is sometimes not easy, however I got much help from an interesting website which lists out locations of scenes from films shot in Singapore: https://sgfilmlocations.com/2014/08/1...

Singapore NLB’s historical newspaper search also helped me in finding a particular shop’s (星光公司) exact location back in 1930s: https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspap...

I also referenced the historical Singapore maps which can be located here: https://libmaps.nus.edu.sg/

Three of my favorite blogs about history of Singapore:
https://thelongnwindingroad.wordpress...
https://remembersingapore.org/2014/07...
http://navalants.blogspot.com/

Some random post (in Chinese) that I enjoyed for almost 10 years: https://leopardsg.wordpress.com/2010/...

Michael Rogge’s YouTube channel got quite a number of really good historical footages about Singapore: https://www.youtube.com/user/MichaelR...

The making of this video is inspired by大谷Spitzer’s work on an AI colored 100 years old video of Beijing: https://finance.sina.com.cn/wm/2020-0...

Here is the list of places identified in the footage (and there are some scenes which I have not been able to locate so far. Any good idea?):
Mount Faber花柏山
Fort Canning Hill 福康宁山
Collyer Quay and Clifford Pier哥烈码头/红灯码头
Raffles Place 莱佛士坊
China Street, facing Club Street and Ann Siang Hill 中国街
Coleman Bridge 哥里门桥
South Bridge Road 桥南路
Thian Hock Keng Temple 天福宫
Sri Mariamman Temple 马里安曼庙
Masjid Sultan苏丹回教堂
Cavenagh Bridge 加文纳桥
Boat Quay 驳船码头
Clarke Quay 克拉码头
Connaught Drive 康乐通道
Fullerton Building 浮尔顿大厦
Cenotaph 世界大战阵亡战士纪念碑
Victoria Memorial Hall (Victoria Theatre and Concert Hall), 维多利亚剧院
Municipal Building (City Hall) 政府大厦
St. Andrew’s Cathedral 圣安德烈座堂
Government House (Istana) 总统府
Heeren Building on Orchard Road 乌节路麒麟大厦
Raffles Hotel 莱佛士酒店
Singapore Swimming Club, Tanjong Rhu新加坡游泳会, 丹戎禺



原黑白视频用AI进行画质增强与上色. 使用了两个工具:
1) Topaz Video Enhance AI. 使用本工具把原视频从480*360 增强到 960*720高清. 效果十分好.本工具有三十天的免费试用期. https://topazlabs.com/video-enhance-ai/
2) 开源黑白上色工具Deoldify. https://github.com/jantic/DeOldify. Deoldify可以在本机python环境下跑, 也可以在google的云端机器学习网站Colab跑: https://colab.research.google.com/git...


以下列出制作本视频时所参考新加坡历史的一些网站:

在新加坡拍摄的电影场景的拍摄地点: https://sgfilmlocations.com/2014/08/1...

新加坡国家图书馆的在线历史报章检索工具: https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspap...

新加坡历史地图集: https://libmaps.nus.edu.sg/

几个我很喜欢的新加坡历史博客:
https://thelongnwindingroad.wordpress...
https://remembersingapore.org/2014/07...
http://navalants.blogspot.com/

一个好玩的帖子: https://leopardsg.wordpress.com/2010/...

Michael Rogge的YouTube 频道里有不少很好的新加坡历史视频: https://www.youtube.com/user/MichaelR...

本视频制作受到大谷Spitzer的北京老视频启发: https://finance.sina.com.cn/wm/2020-0...

原视频版权人网站: https://www.globalimageworks.com/stoc...


西瓜视频：https://www.ixigua.com/68392126642168...