Facebook AI is now capable of ‘opening’ eyes in photos where they’re closed

Facebook wants to open your eyes in photos where they’re closed — and now it can.

A pair of Facebook engineers have come up with an artificial intelligence tool that fixes people’s closed eyes in photos, a research paper published this week by the social media company revealed.

The 10-page paper likened the method to other photo retouching methods such as removing blemishes and red-eye corrections.

Although the idea is still in its research phase, it’s the first technology of its kind that “fixes” closed eyes in photos while taking into account uncontrollable variables like lighting. Adobe, the leading photo editing software, does not have the capability to do that yet. Read more…

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