PornHub ‘Remasturs’ Vintage BW Porn Films

PornHub Remastured vintage topless woman

The world’s biggest and most controversial adult website – PornHub – has been in the news this week for restoring vintage porn movies into color, as well as improving their frame rate. They have termed their technique ‘remasturing’, and have used it to ‘remastur’ classic adult movies dating as far back as the late 19th Century.

Perhaps it’s a good marketing move on their part, reminding viewers, as well as their anti-porn activist enemies, that porn has been with us since the invention of the camera, and will never go away. In fact, the oldest movie that they have given the remasturing treatment to, is ‘The Kiss’ produced by noneother than the inventor Thomas Edison, and which has a claim to be the world’s first ‘blue movie’. Although the sight of a man and a woman kissing may not seem at all ‘pornographic’ today, back in the 1890’s it apparently caused outrage at the time. According to PornHub, kissing in public was illegal in the USA in the 1890’s.

Cnet reports :

Since standard deep-learning models are trained using safe-for-work images, PornHub turned its AI on its library of 100,000 adult videos and images for a lesson in detecting body parts that take top billing in erotic films. Once the AI had colorized the black-and-white films, the team increased image stabilization, reduced flicker and increased the speed of the film to 60 frames per second. They added audio tracks, like player piano music typical of silent movies, that crescendo in all the right places.

“We thought it was important to not only preserve but modernize these films,” Pornhub said. The relics will likely be a turn-on to porn and history buffs alike.

It’s a tantalizing question as to how far this technology can be taken as AI progresses. Could it ever be used to turn classic 2D porn in virtual reality porn, for example? I would say that yes it could, and it might not be too far away. Last year both Facebook and Google launched services that allowed users to turn any 2D photo into a 3D image.

Facebook just expanded 3D photo posting to phones that don’t actually capture depth data. Using the magic of machine learning (i.e. artificial intelligence), Facebook taught a neural network how to “infer 3D structures from 2D photos,” even if those photos were taken with a single lens camera.

The announcement was made moments ago on the Facebook AI blog, where the company’s engineers went into depth on how exactly they pulled this off.

“This advance makes 3D photo technology easily accessible for the first time to the many millions of people who use single-lens camera phones or tablets,” reads the announcement. “It also allows everyone to experience decades-old family photos and other treasured images in a new way, by converting them to 3D.”

Of course, how convincing any attempt by AI to remaster or upgrade old images into something more modern, depends on two things. The first is the sophistication of the AI algorithms. And the second is the amount of date that is present in the original image/s to work upon. A classic 2D porn movie, so long as it contains multiple angles, should be quite easy to convert into a convincing virtual reality porn scene in the not too distant future. A 2D POV video might even be convertable to 3D VR using today’s technology. If the ‘remasturing’ is intended simply to convert the actress into a 3D ‘avatar’ who can then be animated, then this could prove even easier with existing deepfake technology. We saw recently how a family ancestry site was animating long dead people from vintage 2D photographs. Imagine a more sophisticated AI working from multiple images of an individual.

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