AI Embraced by France’s Classic Film Industry, With Caveats: ‘AI Can Restore and Improve Damaged Images,’ Says Mac Guff’s Rodolphe Chabrier
variety.comLise Pedersen Can Artificial Intelligence help better restore and preserve heritage cinema? That was the question asked to a high-level panel on Thursday at the Classic Film Market, which runs alongside Lyon’s Lumière Film Festival, dedicated to heritage film.
Struggling to override the clatter of the heavy downpour hitting the ceiling of the tent set up next to the Lumière Institute for the duration of the festival, participants took part in a heated debate entitled Artificial Intelligence: A Tool for Heritage, in front of a packed room of industry professionals.
Opening the discussion, Barbara Mutz, in charge of legal and regulatory matters at France’s National Audiovisual Institute (INA), said AI algorithms developed in-house hugely facilitate the archiving and location of its huge catalogue. “We can index images and sound in a way that allows us to locate them [more easily] at a later stage, both for our own use and that of our users.
We have also developed a voice recognition tool which allows us to identify male and female voices, as well as music, and segment broadcast time.
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