{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Tech Stories Tech Brief By HackerNoon","title":"How I Built a Pipeline to Restore Old B&W Photos to 4K Color Using Open-Source AI","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/2b6e60e9\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":553,"description":"\n        This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/how-i-built-a-pipeline-to-restore-old-bandw-photos-to-4k-color-using-open-source-ai.\nTurn old B&W photos into 4K color with open-source AI. I tested 8 tools across 6 GPUs — only one produced stunning results in 42 seconds.\nCheck more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories.\n            You can also check exclusive content about #qwen, #ai, #image-restoration, #huggingface, #black-and-white, #ollama, #open-source-ai, #hackernoon-top-story,  and more.\nThis story was written by: @fix2015. Learn more about this writer by checking @fix2015's about page,\n            and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com.\nI tested 8 different open-source AI upscalers and restoration tools to find the best pipeline for converting old black-and-white film footage into 4K colorized images for a YouTube history channel. After days of testing on rented GPU servers, the winning pipeline is surprisingly simple: Qwen-Image-Edit-2511 does everything — upscale, restore, AND colorize — in a single prompt, in under 60 seconds.\n        \n        ","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/IuqXIpaNNuezY7jNfIDnL5gqB1iL_SEndwUUzLGdljY/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQxNDI5LzE2ODM1/ODM0NjQtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}