Want to turn low-res photo into high-res? New Google AI is crazy good at it

Google’s Research team has introduced two new approaches which use machine learning to enhance images. Super resolution can be used to restore old family portraits and to improve medical imaging systems.

There are times when we wish a distorted, low-image was not the way it was because the same image would make for a great image had the quality been better and in high resolution. Google notes that super resolution models transform a low-resolution image into a detailed high resolution image. Super resolution can be used to restore old family portraits and to improve medical imaging systems. Google notes that the Diffusion models were originally proposed in 2015 but have seen a revival now due to their training stability and their promising sample quality results on image and audio generation.