Published 08:05 IST, July 20th 2020

Historic Apollo 'Moon Landing' footage enhanced & restored using AI; watch

A photo and film restoration specialist, who goes by the name DutchSteamMachine, used advanced AI techniques to upscale the Moon Landing's video quality.

Reported by: Zaini Majeed
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An incredible 4K foot of NASA's Apollo 16 rover's moon landing from 1972 with improved 60 Frames Per Second and enhanced visuals using Artificial Intelligence has been released on YouTube. Earlier, despite NASA restoring and enhancing some of most popular Apollo foots, some of segments of moon-landing clip were distorted and blurred. However, AI specialists have w mand to improve visuals using AI techlogy to give viewers and astromy lovers a brand-new experience.

In order to create more vivid visuals from restored foots which were originally shot at moon, photo and film restoration specialist, who goes by name DutchSteamMachine, employed AI techniques to upscale video quality. As per a report, specialist mand to boost resolution of foot where it was shaky while retaining visuals’ quality and pixels. Furr,  isy and low-resolution frames were transformed using a module that reconstructed frames.  

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Speaking to a leing brocaster, specialist said that he wanted to provide an experience on old Apollo moon landing foot like never before. He ded, while foot was originally shot with 12 frames per second (FPS), it has been upscaled to 60 FPS to give a clearer and defined frames. In clip, w reconstructed using AI, one can see sharp visuals of moon's surface at Apollo 15's landing site, Hley Rille.  

Neil Armstrong taking his "first step"

ditionally, one can also clearly see astronaut Neil Armstrong taking his "first step" on moon. visuals were initially shot on a camera installed inside a Lunar Module that shot a hazy video on a 16mm frame. Using a depth awareness technique kwn as INterpolation, or DAIN on frames, specialist was able to bring out key details in foot, as per a report.  

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Explaining amount of time that may have been required to edit entire foot, specialist said that a video of just 5 minutes can take anywhere from six to 20 hours to complete. Furr, in a report, he revealed that foot required a high-end GPU to generate motion interpolation or motion-compensated frame interpolation that me iconic video appear “more fluid”.  

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08:05 IST, July 20th 2020