In the 120 year history of film, several hundred colour processes have been developed. Many had their roots in nineteenth century still photography. This website describes all significant colour processes, but also puts them in a contemporary and historical context. The information on the website gives the technical detail on how the process works, but also describes how the process …
Considering Color in Digital Images of Works of Art
This paper evaluates current practices in digital imaging of works of art and examines whether those practices result in colors that are as accurate as possible in relation to the original intention of the work. Currently, a standard color temperature is applied to digital images of works of art in order to facilitate consistent results among all users and mediums. …
New Life for Old Media: Investigations into Speech Synthesis and Deep Learning-based Colorization for Audiovisual Archives
The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (NISV) is the national audiovisual archive and media museum of the Netherlands. The collections comprise of over one million hours of audiovisual material. One of the collections is that of the so-called “Polygoon” newsreels from the 20th century. This paper outlines recent explorations where Artificial Intelligence technologies are used to enrich this archival …