Most likely, you have boxes of old photos hidden somewhere in your house. Photos that pre-date the smartphone camera-based era – and which can fade and succumb to the general wear and tear of time. That’s why a free AI-based photo restoration tool like GFP-Gain exists – to eliminate digital aging and cruft from physical photos and render them as new.
I discovered this tool a few days ago, and the results honestly blew my mind. The AI behind this open-source photo restoration service uses projection to seamlessly smooth photos and crease patches, enhance any color, and make faded details pop once again.
Louis Bouchard, Canada-based AI expert at What’s AI, explains the tool and how it works in the video below. Its focus is the project “Towards Real-world Blind Face Restoration with Generative Facial Priority”. And you can try it for yourself right here.
The important thing is that photo restoration tools are as easy to use as they are. All you have to do is upload the photo you want the tool to touch again. After that, click on the “Restore Photo” button. And then you can download the restored image on the right.
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Tencent researchers have developed GFP-GAN photo restoration tool. And it should be emphasized again that the AI here is making some guesses about the details of missing or damaged photos that it sets out to improve. In this way, in improving the picture, the researchers caution that there may actually be a “slight change of identity” between the original and the finished product.
Nevertheless, the results here are impressive overall. And if you want to try something similar – specifically, to do more than just photo restoration? With tools like MyHeritage’s deep nostalgia app, you can really animate old pictures.
It’s a tool that really lets you move subjects in old photos, laugh and say whatever you want. These types of devices, as you can imagine, are also good enough to tear some people who have used the devices to bring to life photos of loved ones who have passed away.
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