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At a guess, it's looking at texture and shape. There's a lot of information in texture.

Stuff that looks like skin gets pink or sepia

Stuff that looks like grass gets green

Stuff that looks like sky gets blue

Stuff that looks like fabric gets red or blue

Stuff it's not sure about gets sepia

Very cool to see it done automatically. It's about the level of a mediocre human colorizer which isn't bad for an algorithm...



Could you refer me where I could learn these analyzing algorithms? And where to code bots overall. I have some pretty cool ideas and the internet is an infinite playground to throw bots in, lay back and get you results.


On front page at the moment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12279494 - machine learning

Source code for this:

https://github.com/dannyvai/reddit_crawlers/tree/master/redd...

with explanation:

http://www.whatimade.today/our-frst-reddit-bot-coloring-b-2/




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