AI Eerily Transforms Low-Res, Pixelated Faces Into Sharp Portraits
Image via Denis Malimonov
A new AI app has the confounding ability to transform low-res pixelated photos into stunning portrait photos.
Designed by Russian developer Denis Malimonov, the AI-powered ‘Face Pixelizer’ uses a StyleGAN algorithm that generates realistic portraits of people that don’t exist.
Face Depixelizer takes in pixelated photos of faces before narrowing into them and forming faces it perceives to best match the originals.
The input faces don’t even have to be of real people. You can use any character you wish to see how it might look in human form.
Unfortunately, this app seems inapt of recognizing pixels of dark-skinned people. A Twitter user tested a photo of Barack Obama, and it turned him into a white person.
While people have pointed out that the tool is great for identifying faces obscured for privacy, Malinomav explained that the technology doesn’t restore features of the person but creates a fitting image.
If you wish to try out the app, head over to Google Colab.
Face Depixelizer
— Bomze (@tg_bomze) June 19, 2020
Given a low-resolution input image, model generates high-resolution images that are perceptually realistic and downscale correctly.
😺GitHub: https://t.co/0WBxkyWkiK
📙Colab: https://t.co/q9SIm4ha5p
P.S. Colab is based on thehttps://t.co/fvEvXKvWk2 pic.twitter.com/lplP75yLha
With default settings, I got this result. pic.twitter.com/mRkqqTwhJF
— Bomze (@tg_bomze) June 20, 2020
So that one is Wolfenstein, here is Doom pic.twitter.com/ixpItQyJ5q
— Hani ✊🏽🧢 (@h_bash) June 20, 2020
— Moritz Klack (@moklick) June 20, 2020
*beep boop* AI does blackface. pic.twitter.com/BeUDoAsfvj
— Kiloku (@Kiloku) June 20, 2020
🤔🤔🤔 pic.twitter.com/LG2cimkCFm
— Chicken3gg (@Chicken3gg) June 20, 2020
This tool will not restore the original face, however, it can help with the identification of facial features.
— Bomze (@tg_bomze) June 20, 2020
[via PetaPixel, opening image via Denis Malimonov]
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