Artificial Intelligence Creates Sharp Images from Blurry Photos

Researchers have developed an AI tool that can turn blurry, unrecognizable pictures of people’s faces into eerily convincing computer-generated portraits, in finer detail than ever before. Previous methods can scale an image of a face up to eight times its original resolution. The new system, called PULSE, takes a handful of pixels and creates realistic-looking faces with up to 64 times the resolution, “imagining” features such as fine lines, eyelashes, and stubble that weren’t there in the first place.