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MyHeritage is an online genealogy platform that helps people to connect with their family histories. Earlier this year, they introduced MyHeritage In Color™, a new technology supposed to bring old family photos to life through colorization. But On June 12, the company took it a step further, introducing a tool that enhances photos by bringing blurry faces into sharp focus.

"When combined, MyHeritage In Color™ and the MyHeritage Photo Enhancer can reveal your ancestors as you've never seen them before," the company wrote on its blog. "The technology for enhancing photos was licensed by MyHeritage from the creators of the Remini mobile application. They developed machine learning technology to enhance photos by upscaling (increasing the resolution) the faces that appear in them. This produces exceptional results for historical photos, where the faces are often small and blurry, but works equally well on new color photos too. Enhancement works best on photos that feature multiple people, and allows you to go face by face to see each one enhanced."

MyHeritage really believes that it's the best technology in the world for this kind of work. "No other company has succeeded in developing photo enhancement technology of this quality. The results are crisp and truly outstanding."

Continue scrolling, check out what the enhancer is capable of and tell us in the comments whether you agree with this ballsy statement!

More info: myheritage.com

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Shushadei
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I tried that with an old picture of my parent's engagement. Sharp? Yes! My parents faces? No, not at all! No similarity!

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Tolga ÜSTÜN
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Imagine that you are posing to a photographer and be like "this ones gonna be famous one day in hundred years"

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4 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I would love to know what Algorithms MyHeritage uses to colourise and enhance these old photographs. The little boy in the center of the photograph looks like his left leg and right hand have been mistakenly coloured grey.

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Cori
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

She looks determined. The set of her mouth says 'try me. I've already seen some s**t and you don't impress me a bit.' The writer in me sees a character I very much want to build a story around!

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Kathy Baylis
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

See kids? We’ve been trying to tell you we’ve been there, done that. With nothing more than a few tech upgrades, you’re merely doing the same stuff your parents did—-and their parents, and their parents’ parents, and so on going way back. That’s how we know when and how you’re doing it, or planning to. I ain’t ESP or some kind of magic. It’s experience. You’ll have it too, in a few years.

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Jim Price
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

His cap became his forehead, and I truly believe there was a mustache missed from the original. My grandfather had one like it.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This one creeps me out a lil bit. Almost looks like he has no mouth... weirds me out.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

People used to dress so well...even their casual clothes were beautiful!

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I thought it was Himmler and i was like "what?!" so i googled it it's not him. He really look like that monster, poor man.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's interesting! I didn't know much about him and now have my curiosity peaked.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You can see the plug board behind them so much better now! (just kidding!)

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Strange how this AFTER shot is still overexposed ("washed out"). I'd like to think that a user could tailor such settings, if need. But overall, very impressive software.

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John Otruba
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

7 kids in my family..one always rode on rear window deck..it was a fought for spot!

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Dynein
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm not impressed... The blurry photo looks like an old man, while the "enhanced" version is young!

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Marek Yanchurak
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No it didn't. The photo enhancer is doing nothing more than making an educatated guess.

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Connie George
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Barely any difference because the original was already pretty clear. Why bother enhancing this one?

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Connie George
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Again, why bother trying to enhance a photo that is already clear?

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