Hey all! During the last few years I only stumbled upon a new actress of my liking on very few occasions and I still mostly enjoy content from the times around 2005 or so. Sadly, for many of my favorite actresses, there exists only very low quality video footage.

So I recently worked myself a bit into machine learning software and have found a more or less viable approach to get those old videos into better shape. I have spent several hours experimenting and while there is certainly no magic that can perfectly enhance a video at from 320x240 to full HD or 4k, there is still quite some detail to be gained from such tools. After multiple processing steps, I am quite happy with the result from an old shot featuring Nikki Nova back in 2003:


(RAW is a snapshot from the original footage, ML is from the enhanced video)

I was wondering if somebody here also has experience in such techniques and if perhaps someone has a collection of videos to share from those days. Applying such techniques to a single ~few minute video takes a few hours on a quite good machine, so processing videos on a large scale is currently not feasible, I guess. However, doing a remaster of Nikki Nova would be a great start!

Let me know what you think!