IIT Madras Team Develops New Method to Restore Old, Damaged Photos The team has developed an AI technique to restore photos that have been degraded. By Edited by Gadgets 360 Newsdesk | Updated: 29 April 2021 18:16 IST Photo Credit: IITM Tech Talk The team has come up with an approach using neural networks that can be utilised to clean images Highlights The technique was developed under the supervision of Dr. A.N. Rajagopalan The power of artificial neural networks to restore images The world is still experimenting with and in awe of Deep Nostalgia, an AI-powered technique from online family tree service MyHeritage, which adds facial animations to still portrait photographs. Almost daily, we come across small clips on the Internet in which the said technology has been used to animate still pictures, making a character smile, nod, blinks, and tilt their head. The experience, no doubt, is wonderful. While Deep Nostalgia brings life to your photographs, a new AI-powered technique, developed under the supervision of Dr. A.N. Rajagopalan, the Sterlite Technologies Chair Professor in the Electrical Engineering department at IIT Madras, helps restore blurred or degraded images.