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Accessibility & LanguageRory Ward
Rory Ward's Page
Project - Colourisation Using Artificial Intelligence
This research focuses on improving the quality of media restored through the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools. Some Examples include Image Colourisation, Video Colourisation, Image Super-Resolution, Video Super-Resolution and Video Frames Per Second Boosting
Manually restoring old and damaged content is a slow and difficult task requiring years of experience. This project intends to make this prosses easier and more accessible. Some of the main issues that currently exist in this area are flicker, poor quality resolution, and low frames per second.
GrayScale Colourised
Publications
Ward R, Khan MJ, Breslin JG, Curry E. Knowledge-guided colorization: Overview, prospects and challenges. In17th International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning 2023.
Ward R, Breslin J. Towards Temporal Stability in Automatic Video Colourisation. In24th Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference 2022 Aug.
