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This Website Uses AI to Enhance Low-Res Photos, CSI-Style

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Let's Enhance is a new free website that uses neural networks to upscale your photos in a way Photoshop can't. It magically boosts and enhances your photo resolution like something straight out of CSI. The service is designed to be minimalist and extremely easy to use. The homepage invites you to drag and drop a photo into the center (once you do, you'll be asked to create a free account): Once it receives your photo, the neural network goes to work, upscaling your photo by 4x, removing JPEG artifacts, and "hallucinating" missing details and textures into your upscale photo to make it look natural. You'll need to wait a couple of minutes for the work to be done, but it's worth the wait -- the results we've seen are impressive.


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

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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."