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This Online Photo Enhancer Helps People See Their Ancestors Clearly And Here Are 30 Of The Best Restorations
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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Tolga ÜSTÜN 6 years ago
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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Dave In MD 6 years ago
The chevron below the crossed cannons on his rating badge should be red.
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Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 6 years ago (edited)
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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Kathy Baylis 6 years ago
See kids? We’ve been trying to tell you we’ve been there, done that. With nothing more than a few tech upgrades, you’re merely doing the same stuff your parents did—-and their parents, and their parents’ parents, and so on going way back. That’s how we know when and how you’re doing it, or planning to. I ain’t ESP or some kind of magic. It’s experience. You’ll have it too, in a few years.
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Koalamonster 6 years ago
This one creeps me out a lil bit. Almost looks like he has no mouth... weirds me out.
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cassiushumanmother 6 years ago
I thought it was Himmler and i was like "what?!" so i googled it it's not him. He really look like that monster, poor man.
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michelle neugebauer 6 years ago
That's interesting! I didn't know much about him and now have my curiosity peaked.
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Not Proud British 6 years ago
You can see the plug board behind them so much better now! (just kidding!)
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Thumbs Down 6 years ago
Strange how this AFTER shot is still overexposed ("washed out"). I'd like to think that a user could tailor such settings, if need. But overall, very impressive software.
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John Otruba 6 years ago
7 kids in my family..one always rode on rear window deck..it was a fought for spot!
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Marek Yanchurak 6 years ago
No it didn't. The photo enhancer is doing nothing more than making an educatated guess.
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Connie George 6 years ago
Barely any difference because the original was already pretty clear. Why bother enhancing this one?
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What do you think ?
Marek Yanchurak 6 years ago
Zoom in and enhance, Enhance. Enhance! Look this is just guesswork on the AI's part. They've seen/processed enough hi res photos of people to be able to competently fill in the details, but they're still doing just that - filling in the details. They are not pulling that information out of the photographs themselves. It's interesting, but lets not assume it's something that it's not.
N G 6 years ago
That's exactly what i was thinking, thanks for typing it in to legible English
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Dror Caspi 6 years ago
I uploaded a blurry photo of my family. Definitely not us after reconstruction. Yes, you get clear photos but of random people.
RaroaRaroa 6 years ago
I thought that would be a good way to test it. Upload bad quality photos of people you actually know. Thanks for saving me from wasting my time. :-)
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Hans 6 years ago
This sounds like an advert for this service. Sure, the results look impressive and seem to make history more tangible. However, what you see on the enhanced photo is not how the person(s) looked like but how an AI algorithm predicts they might have looked like. This makes a huge difference!
Fixin'Ta 6 years ago
Looks to me like it's super close. Our minds can extrapolate what the images probably looked like for real, and that's what the AI is doing in "print" form. I'd rather have a close approximation to what my g-g-grandparents looked like than be stuck with a blurry image that doesn't get any closer than the AI approximation.
Load More Replies... Marek Yanchurak 6 years ago
Zoom in and enhance, Enhance. Enhance! Look this is just guesswork on the AI's part. They've seen/processed enough hi res photos of people to be able to competently fill in the details, but they're still doing just that - filling in the details. They are not pulling that information out of the photographs themselves. It's interesting, but lets not assume it's something that it's not.
N G 6 years ago
That's exactly what i was thinking, thanks for typing it in to legible English
Load More Replies... Dror Caspi 6 years ago
I uploaded a blurry photo of my family. Definitely not us after reconstruction. Yes, you get clear photos but of random people.
RaroaRaroa 6 years ago
I thought that would be a good way to test it. Upload bad quality photos of people you actually know. Thanks for saving me from wasting my time. :-)
Load More Replies... Hans 6 years ago
This sounds like an advert for this service. Sure, the results look impressive and seem to make history more tangible. However, what you see on the enhanced photo is not how the person(s) looked like but how an AI algorithm predicts they might have looked like. This makes a huge difference!
Fixin'Ta 6 years ago
Looks to me like it's super close. Our minds can extrapolate what the images probably looked like for real, and that's what the AI is doing in "print" form. I'd rather have a close approximation to what my g-g-grandparents looked like than be stuck with a blurry image that doesn't get any closer than the AI approximation.
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