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MyHeritage is an online genealogy platform that helps people to connect with their family histories. Earlier this year, they introduced MyHeritage In Color™, a new technology supposed to bring old family photos to life through colorization. But On June 12, the company took it a step further, introducing a tool that enhances photos by bringing blurry faces into sharp focus.

"When combined, MyHeritage In Color™ and the MyHeritage Photo Enhancer can reveal your ancestors as you've never seen them before," the company wrote on its blog. "The technology for enhancing photos was licensed by MyHeritage from the creators of the Remini mobile application. They developed machine learning technology to enhance photos by upscaling (increasing the resolution) the faces that appear in them. This produces exceptional results for historical photos, where the faces are often small and blurry, but works equally well on new color photos too. Enhancement works best on photos that feature multiple people, and allows you to go face by face to see each one enhanced."

MyHeritage really believes that it's the best technology in the world for this kind of work. "No other company has succeeded in developing photo enhancement technology of this quality. The results are crisp and truly outstanding."

Continue scrolling, check out what the enhancer is capable of and tell us in the comments whether you agree with this ballsy statement!

More info: myheritage.com

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I tried that with an old picture of my parent's engagement. Sharp? Yes! My parents faces? No, not at all! No similarity!

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Imagine that you are posing to a photographer and be like "this ones gonna be famous one day in hundred years"

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The chevron below the crossed cannons on his rating badge should be red.

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4 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I would love to know what Algorithms MyHeritage uses to colourise and enhance these old photographs. The little boy in the center of the photograph looks like his left leg and right hand have been mistakenly coloured grey.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

She looks determined. The set of her mouth says 'try me. I've already seen some s**t and you don't impress me a bit.' The writer in me sees a character I very much want to build a story around!

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