Artificial intelligence will bring (photos) of your relatives back to life

An artificial intelligence tool developed by Tencent is able to take old and worn album photos and restore or complete the details that appear in them

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31/07/2022

Sunday, July 31, 2022, 11:08 a.m. Updated: 11:16 a.m.

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This is how it looks: taking old and worn album photos back to life (photo: Wang, X. et. al)

Who doesn't have a box at home with old black and white photos that have worn out over the years?

Now the Chinese technology corporation Tencent has developed a tool that can restore those damaged or low-quality photos.

The free tool, called GFP-GAN, can very successfully reconstruct old facial images and add life to them, by using two artificial intelligence models.

The existing image reconstruction approach considers the differences between the original image and the corrections in the future reconstructed image, but this often has low quality results.

The approach in the new tool uses a multi-stage model during the reconstruction, so that the "personality" of the subjects is preserved, while emphasizing key facial details such as eyes and mouth.

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However, the project is still limited within the existing capabilities of artificial intelligence.

While incredibly accurate, it still makes "insider guesses" about missing content.

The researchers lower expectations by saying that the character in the image may look slightly different, and sometimes the quality may not be as expected.

Don't expect the tool to produce an image that you can then turn into a poster that you can hang over the Ayalon, but it will certainly be able to save that old photo of Setaba Raba, which if it weren't for the software, would have been lost - and for free.

You can try a free version of GFP-GAN here.

The researchers also published the tool's code on GitHub, for anyone who wants to use it in other projects.

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