Coventry on film

On 25th Jan 2024 12:32pm, NeilsYard said: Has anyone ever seen any archive moving/ground level footage of the Butcher Row area at all? There are some lovely snippets of other areas of old Cov here but only a few seconds worth and its only from one of the Spires down once Trinity Street had gone in - though you can see the corner in to Derby Lane. The bits of old Broadgate are so nice as well.

On 31st Oct 2024 3:08pm, Helen F said: Hi William, welcome to the forum Interesting trial you have there. In theory AI should be able one day, to take loads of stills, stitch them together and then move within it but realism is a way off. One of the things that I've found with old streets is that they hide a lot more detail than AI could automatically adjust for. Two houses that seem to stand next to each other might be separated by houses hidden by the kinks in the street line and even the road shape. A person walking down the road wouldn't match a real walk, if the hidden features weren't adjusted for eg a person's feet being obscured by a hump in the road. As a human it took looking at the map and plotting each visible house, to realise how much each photo was missing. Reflections weren't handled well by the software and the biggest giveaway was the window on the right. I had a go trying to turn an old photo into a sketch and was amused to see it turned cyclists into cars every time. Thanks for that