Okay Google. Zoom and enhance.
How many shaky TV and movie plots have been saved by that classic impossible trope, the enhance and zoom? Here’s how it works in a fantasy world where images can magically generate more pixels, allowing you to zoom in with amazing detail.
It would be handy if this technology existed, not just because it would offer legitimacy to lazy TV script writers looking to close a glaring loophole in their plotline, but because it could actually offer real help to real law enforcement. The truth is if you tried that in real life right now, you’d just get a bunch of extra large pixels, and no new leads. We have the zoom, we don’t have the enhance.
But Google’s latest research paper has come one step closer to fixing a thousand movie plot holes. The Google Brain software has been conditioned to predict what a tiny 8×8 photo might look like when blown up to 32×32… and the results are surprisingly impressive, if not 100% accurate.
