PULSE: Photo Upsampling Makes Blurry Faces 60 Times Sharper

PULSE is a new image upsampling algorithm. This new algorithm transforms a blurry image into a high-resolution image.

It can take a super low-resolution 16x16 image and turn it into a 1080p high-definition human face! You don’t believe me? Then you can try it yourself in less than a minute using their demo.

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Video Transcript

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this new algorithm transforms a blurry

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image to a high-resolution image it can

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take a super low resolution like a 16 by

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16 image and turn it into a 1 ADP High

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Definition human face you don't believe

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me then you can do just like me and try

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it yourself in less than a minute but

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first let's see how they did that this

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is what they I and I share artificial

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to not miss any further news to start we

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have to introduce the concept of photo

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up sampling our image super resolution

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the goal here is to construct a high

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resolution image from a correspondingly

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low resolution input which is a face in

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this case the low resolution will be

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such as 16 by 16 pixels super blurry to

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a high definition on one a DP image with

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a clear face usually these techniques

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use supervised learning to trained our

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network and measure the average distance

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between the new high-definition image

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and a high resolution ground truth but

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using this technique seem to neglect

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important details like textures and

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create some blurry spots when the answer

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is uncertain because of the differences

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between the low and high resolutions

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this is where polls comes and play their

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goal was to generate realistic images

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within the set of plausible solutions

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meaning that they wanted to rely on an

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actual image that was realistic where

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it's downscale version will look the

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same as the original low resolution

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image instead of having to guess

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directly from the low resolution image

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so they introduced a new self supervised

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technique that traverses the high

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resolution natural image manifold

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searching for images that don't scale to

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the original low resolution image this

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is great because as you can see in this

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image multiple high resolution images

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can be done scaled to the same low

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resolution image which will cause a

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blurry uncertainty with previous

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techniques these high resolution images

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are made by a gun Network which is pre

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trained in an unsupervised way to

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generate multiple realistic and sharp

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face images

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if you are not familiar with self

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supervised learning or generative

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adversarial networks or Ganz I invite

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you to watch the video I introduced them

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both are linked in the description below

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at first I was skeptical probably just

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like you so I decided to try it myself

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since the code is available and the

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results were amazing you can set the

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image is super blurry no one could guess

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how I really looked like in this picture

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and yet even though I don't think it

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looks just like me it's still extremely

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close to the reality for the amount of

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information it was fed you can even try

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it on yourself right now with the demo

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no setup needed and it takes only a

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minute or so click on the link in the

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description run the program enter your

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image which will not be saved by them

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for privacy and here are the results in

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this work they used a Celebi HQ data set

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which is a large scale face attribute

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data set with more than 200 thousand

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celebrity images this could explain why

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the faces look older and different than

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non celebrity faces it will be

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interesting to see a comparison with

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another large data set using a different

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segment of the population and this work

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is of course generalizable and could be

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of great use in fields like medicine

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astronomy or satellite imagery where

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sharp and high-resolution images are

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difficult to have due to their cast or

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hardware and memory limitations of

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course this was just a simple overview

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of the pulse photo op sampling algorithm

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I strongly recommend to read the paper

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and play with the code both are linked

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in the description for more information

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