PornHub uses an exclusive data set to restore erotic movies 100 years ago

Summary of content: The new show officially launched by P station chose the theme of old movie restoration, not only skillfully applied his expertise in machine learning methods, but also solemnly released 20 classic works.

Starter: HyperAI Super Neural

Keywords: computer vision image restoration

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PornHub, the world's largest non-describable website, recently registered a video publishing account called "Remastured" on its official website, which means "remake" in Chinese.

So far, this account has uploaded 21 videos (including a project introduction video), with a total of 20,000 subscribers and nearly 100,000 views.

The playback data of this account is not good for the 130 million daily active P station (the official data released on April 8, 2021), but these videos are indeed very different.

1896-1940 Featured 20 short films

"Remastured" has released 20 classic erotic movies that have been repaired by the AI of the PornHub technical team under the account "Remastured". The time span is from 1896 to the 1940s.

album "A Kiss" was released in 1896 and was directed by Thomas Edison (yes, Edison who invented the light bulb) . "A Kiss" is also one of the first commercial films in the world to be screened at the same time as "Train Into the Station" and "Factory Gate".

"A Kiss" before (above) and after (below)

This work originated from the last scene of the stage play "Widow Jones" produced by Edison, ending the whole play with the kissing scene of the male and female protagonists. Edison filmed this scene into a 25-second movie fragment and screened it publicly.

Why is this 25-second kiss classified as a classic porn movie by Pornhub?

After PornHub repaired "A Kiss", it said in the description:

It all started with a kiss.

This scene is the first kiss recorded in the history of human cinema. Since then, the concept of Porn has been quietly changing.

But in the United States in 1896, kissing in public and being shown through movies were very controversial. This scene in "A Kiss" was condemned at the time as causing shock and obscenity to the audience.

Kissing is a common picture in contemporary film and television works. However, a hundred years ago, even in the United States, this "apostate" kiss caused huge public criticism. PornHub wrote in the description: "A Kiss" triggered a discussion of erotic content in the United States, and should be considered a great erotic film work. also wittyly stated that the king of invention Thomas Edison can be called "the world" The first pornographic film director on the show."

Station P: The point is not the restoration of old movies, but...

PornHub has produced a beautiful, retro, and interactive official website for Remastured's series of works. In the video introducing the project, PornHub presents (produced in good faith by PornHub) was also mentioned in a special way.

In the official website of the project, PornHub said that AI repairing old movies is not new. These videos are also repaired through coloring, super-resolution repair, picture denoising, sound denoising, etc.

Remastured account screenshot

The Remastured project was born, , because PornHub believes that other repair methods cannot accurately restore the details of the private parts of the human body in erotic movies, nor can they calibrate their colors.

To solve this problem, PornHub compiled 100,000 adult movies and images as a data set, and tuned out this algorithm. 160af1950533cf finally repaired these 20 movies. Speaking of which, in the restoration of this key detail, PornHub, which is indeed the largest adult image data set, has the most say.

The detailed repair details of the Remastured project have not been disclosed, but it can be seen from previous PornHub technical reports that machine learning technology has been applied in various business links of PornHub.

deployed 160af195053402 content analysis models such as CSAI Match, PhotoDNA, Content Safety API, MediaWise, etc., and self-developed Safeguard protection system to combat child pornography, abusive content, copyright disputes and other content. 653,465 problematic videos have been deleted in the past year.

Let us take a look at this project with the pursuit of new machine learning technology, the respect for the older generation of artists, and the aesthetic and critical vision of art.

For more project information, please read the original text to view: https://hyper.ai/15030