This New AI Can Recreate Partially Erased Images, And It Has to Be Seen to Be Believed

Forget using healing brushes or copying and patching scraps of images with Adobe Photoshop – a revolutionary new AI program might soon let you seamlessly reconstruct entire missing sections of an image in a way that needs to be seen to be believed. The US tech company Nvidia has come up with a novel method for editing complex images that uses neural networking to fill in the blanks, resulting in a far more realistic picture in a fraction of the time required by current programs. Erasing the ex from your family portrait currently requires some clever use of a handful of tools that use the surrounding pixels to estimate the colours and patterns that go inside their cut-out silhouette. In addition to these'valid' outside pixels, they sample the copies inserted into the cut-out in order to combine them into a best-guess background pattern. For the most part this works surprisingly well.