PornHub Uses Exclusive Data Sets to Restore Pornographic Films From a Century Ago
PornHub, the world's largest unspeakable website, recently registered a video publishing account called "Remastured" on its official website, which means "remake" in Chinese.
So far, this account has uploaded 21 videos (including a project introduction video), with a total of 20,000 subscribers and nearly 100,000 views.
The playback data of this account is not outstanding for P station, which has 130 million daily active users (official data released on April 8, 2021), but these videos are indeed very unique.
1896-1940 Selected 20 short films
The "Remastured" account has released 20 classic erotic films that have been restored by PornHub's technical team using AI, spanning from 1896 to the 1940s.
The first film in the album, A Kiss, was released in 1896 and was directed and produced by Thomas Edison (yes, the Edison who invented the light bulb).A Kiss was also one of the first films to be screened commercially around the world, released at the same time as Train Arrives at the Station and Factory Gate.
This work originated from the last scene of the stage play "The Widow Jones" produced by Edison, which ended with a kiss between the hero and heroine. Edison filmed this scene into a 25-second film clip and screened it publicly.
Why is this 25-second kiss listed as a classic porn film by Pornhub?
After PornHub fixed "A Kiss", it said in the description:
It all started with a kiss.
This scene is the first kiss recorded in the history of human film. Since then, the concept of porn has been quietly changing.
But in the United States in 1896, kissing in public and showing it on film was extremely controversial. This scene in "A Kiss" was condemned at the time as shocking and obscene to the audience.
PornHub Video Annotations
Kissing is a common scene in contemporary film and television works. But a hundred years ago, even in the United States, this "deviant" kiss caused huge public criticism. PornHub wrote in the description:A Kiss sparked a conversation about pornography in America and should be considered one of the great erotic filmsSimilarly, PornHub humorously stated that the great inventor Thomas Edison could be called "the world's first erotic film director."
P Station: The focus is not on restoring old movies, but...
PornHub created a beautiful, retro, interactive official website for the Remastured series. In the video introducing the project, it was also noted that PornHub presents (PornHub sincerely produced).
On the project's official website,PornHub said that AI restoration of old movies is not new. These videos were also restored through colorization, super-resolution restoration, image denoising, sound denoising, etc.
The birth of the Remastured project,This is because PornHub believes that other restoration methods cannot accurately restore the details of the private parts of the human body in erotic films, nor can they calibrate their colors.
To solve this problem, PornHub compiled 100,000 adult movies and images as a data set and trained this impure algorithm, and finally restored these 20 movies. So to speak, PornHub, which has the largest adult image data set, has the most say in the restoration of this key detail.
The detailed repair details of the Remastured project have not been disclosed to the public, but it can be seen from PornHub's past technical reports that machine learning technology has been applied in various business links of PornHub.
Among them, in the most important content review, PornHub is combating child pornography, abuse content, copyright disputes, etc.It has deployed content analysis models such as CSAI Match, PhotoDNA, Content Safety API, MediaWise, and its self-developed Safeguard protection system, and has deleted 653,465 problematic videos in the past year.
Let us take a look at this project with our pursuit of new machine learning technologies, our respect for older artists, and our aesthetic and critical perspectives on art.
Project official website: https://www.P站全名.com/art/remastured
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