Google's RAISR Uses Machine Learning to Enhance Low-Res Photos

Google scientists are brewing technology that could one day help you to "enhance!" photos with sharper results than current software on the market. Called RAISR, the system uses machine learning for intelligent upscaling. RAISR stands for "Rapid and Accurate Image Super-Resolution," and it's a new technique researchers have created for creating high-quality versions of low-resolution photos. "RAISR produces results that are comparable to or better than the currently available super-resolution methods, and does so roughly 10 to 100 times faster, allowing it to be run on a typical mobile device in real-time," Google says. "Furthermore, our technique is able to avoid recreating the aliasing artifacts that may exist in the lower resolution image."