Criminals beware! Google's AI can now identify faces from heavily pixellated images

[Winter Soldier]

Two Google Brain neural networks were combined to create the enhanced images.
Two artificial intelligence systems built by Google are able to transform a heavily pixellated, low quality, image into a clear photo or a person or object.
Computer scientists from Google Brain, the central Google AI team, have shown it's not only possible to enhance a picture's resolution, they can fill in missing details in the process. In a paper – Pixel Recursive Super Resolution – three researchers from the Silicon Valley firm trained their system on small 8x8 pixel images of celebrity faces and photos of bedrooms.

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Criminals beware! Google's AI can now identify faces from heavily pixellated images

 

[frogboy]

Yikes, luckily I am not a criminal.

 

[mlnevese]

All those police TV shows and movies and some science fiction ones as well are finally right about this

 

[Vipersd]

Technology itself is not the problem, application and abuse of that technology is the main issue.

 

[mlnevese]

Any technology can be abused... Thanks to fire we have cooked meals and witches being burned at the stake...

 

[In2an3_PpG]

I see this as another excuse to spy on people even if their not criminals. IMO.