Imagine having the old, folded, and even torn pictures of your grandmother when she was 18 years old in high definition with zero artifacts.

This is called old photo restoration and this paper just opened a whole new avenue to address this problem using a deep learning approach.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.07047.pdf

Technique overview

Image from https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.07047.pdf

Vintage photo restoration is an important field of computer vision. We all want the old pictures of our loved ones to be clear and beautiful.

A picture like this doesn’t honor the person nor brings back as many good memories as a better-looking picture like this one does.

We all have at least one old photo that we care about and is looking worse and worse with time. This is why many are working to solve this issue.

Image from https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.07047.pdf

In this paper, researchers from the Hong Kong University and Microsoft Research proposed a novel network to address this problem, called “Old Photo Restoration via Deep Latent Space Translation”.

They are using deep learning to restore old photos that suffered from severe degradation, just like this one.

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