Website Magically Turns B&W Photos Into Color Ones Using AI

There's a new web app that uses advanced "deep learning" research to magically auto-colorize black-and-white photos. The app uses the Colorful Image Colorization algorithm that's being developed by a team at UC Berkeley led by PhD student Richard Zhang. We first reported on the technology back in March 2016, and now there's an online demo that anyone can try on any photograph. Simply paste a URL to a photo into the website and press the purple "Colorize It" button. After some processing and a short wait, the page displays a side-by-side comparison of the B&W and colorized photos that you can switch between.