Free AI tool restores old photos instantly

This AI-powered GFP-GAN tool lets you recover old damaged photos

Before the advent of smartphones and digital cameras, people used film cameras to record special occasions. The only issue with this is that an older photo has a higher chance of becoming ripped, cracked, or otherwise damaged. Family members who only have a few old photos of departed loved ones or distant ancestors they have never met may start to worry if the degradation is considerable. Now there seems to be a great solution out there to this problem, which of course involves AI (otherwise I would not write about it 🤣)

According to the online science site ZME Sciene, Chinese researchers have developed a new, potent AI technology that can aid in restoring the old photograph. The incredible computer programme uses a neural network known as the Generative Facial Prior-Generative Adversarial Network, or GFP-GAN for short, to eliminate creases, blemishes, grain, and other obvious signs of ageing from old photographs and restore them to as sharp as they would have been brand new.
Even with only a low resolution photograph, the effects seem truly incredible.

Let’s check out how everything functions first, though! These networks are algorithmic architectures that categorise examples as either…