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Researchers, including one of Indian-origin, have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that can turn blurry, unrecognisable images of people's faces into perfect computer-generated portraits. The method, called PULSE, searches through AI-generated examples of high-resolution faces to match ones that look similar to the input image when compressed to the same size. "While the researchers focused on faces as a proof of concept, the same technique could, in theory, take low-res shots of almost anything and create sharp, realistic-looking pictures, with applications ranging from medicine and microscopy to astronomy and satellite imagery," said co-author Sachit Menon from the Duke University in the US. Previous methods can scale an image of a face up to eight times its original resolution. For the current study, the research team came up with a different approach.