During his 4K restoration of classic Silly Symphony Disney animation The Skeleton Dance from 1929, editor Adam Maciaszek used an artificial neural network to stabilise the intense flicker in the original, clean up detail and improve the resolution.
For comparison, here is the 1929 original. To optimise the viewing experience, Adam recommends watching the restored version at 2 x speed.
Kling, which launched nationally last month, is now available to users around the world. It can produce 2-minute 30 fps / 720p HD videos using prompts up to 2,000 characters in length. Users can also create 5-second clips using text and image inputs and then incrementally extend their length by 4.5 seconds at a time. […]
Employing techniques used by astronomers to “measure the shapes of galaxies”, a team of researchers at the University of Hull led by Masters student Adejumoke Owolabi has found that deepfaked humans don’t have the same consistency in reflections across both eyes, allowing them to tell if a portrait of a human was AI-generated or not. […]