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Repair Old Photographs with GFP-GAN Artificial Intelligence

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Remember those old faded and cracked photographs that your parents and grandparents occasionally brought out of boxes to share stories of family past? You stared at the younger version of your grandmother or the dead uncles and aunts that you never met, some with their faces blurred out by inferior technology or with chemicals and paper erased by the ravishes of time. For photographers like me, Photoshop could digitally repair and replicate missing information but it could take time and if the photograph was badly damaged then copying pixels could lose detail. To address these annoying problems, a newly-released artificial intelligence model called the Generative Facial Prior-Generative Adversarial Network (GFP-GAN) repairs old photographs in mere seconds, including low resolution. The name doesn't exactly roll off the tongue and may need a bit of tweaking for commercial purposes by the Chinese tech company Tencent developers.