Researchers use AI to deblur human faces in photos

We’ve all been there: You’re snapping pics with your phone — perhaps of a high-speed bike ride or of a hockey match — and don’t think to check whether the autofocus is in lockstep with the action. It isn’t, as you later discover, and you’re stuck with a gallery of unusably blurry photos.

In search of a solution, scientists at the Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence in the United Arab Emirates, the Beijing Institute of Technology, and Stony Brook University developed an AI system that removes blur from images in post-production.  Read More

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The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It

The New York Times has a long story about a little-known start-up, Clearview AI, that helps law enforcement match photos of unknown people to their online images — and “might lead to a dystopian future or something,” a backer says. Read More

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