Crazy AI detail recovery/sharpen (Cloud-based feature replacement?!)

[Tom Pinchenzo]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8HFN4y1WVw&feature=emb_title


This video looks at a new mobile app that is able to fully 'recover' detail from totally blurry images (like, unusably soft images). As discussed in the video, it's cloud-based so presumable uses a bank of thousands (millions?) of images and effectively invents new details (as opposed to 'recovering' detail) to fill in the gaps. Clearly the worse the blur the less accurate the final image is.... but here's the creepy thing: it's not inaccurate in that it looks poorly sharpened with ugly artefacts - it's perfectly sharp, it just looks less and less like the original person's features

It's probably not something I'd use but I wonder whether it has applications for pros, like wedding togs. I imagine there are issues with photojournalism/documentary photographers as you're basically creating a composite. Maybe when it become a PS plug-in?

I'm sure if people put this effort and tech into something useful we could solve climate change and cure cancer in no time

 

[4wd]

I was watching that the other day too, it's phone app based and free (with ads) to try but wasn't able to download it at that time not sure why.
He mentioned there's more serious drawbacks like can't export a larger res version?

 

[Deleted member 34016]

That would be nice to have within Photoshop

Les

 

[Dave Canon]

Very interesting but no use for me as I could not enter a photograph into a competition. It is not much of a step to just telling the AI SW produce a female model head & shoulders wearing red. Why bother to go to a studio and take a photograph.

Dave