{"id":111927,"date":"2020-08-26T06:22:25","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T13:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/artificial-intelligence-is-getting-insanely-good-at-removing-shadows-from-photographs-of-faces"},"modified":"2020-08-26T06:22:25","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T13:22:25","slug":"artificial-intelligence-is-getting-insanely-good-at-removing-shadows-from-photographs-of-faces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/artificial-intelligence-is-getting-insanely-good-at-removing-shadows-from-photographs-of-faces","title":{"rendered":"Artificial Intelligence Is Getting Insanely Good at Removing Shadows From Photographs of Faces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/artificial-intelligence-is-getting-insanely-good-at-removing-shadows-from-photographs-of-faces2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While Photoshop can do a pretty good job at removing shadows from faces, there\u2019s a fair amount of legwork involved. One scientist has shown that neural networks and artificial intelligence can produce some very impressive results, suggesting that it will soon be a part of how we edit our photos.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/users.cg.tuwien.ac.at\/zsolnai\/about\/\">K\u00e1roly Zsolnai-Feh\u00e9r<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCbfYPyITQ-7l4upoX8nvctg\">Two Minute Papers<\/a> and the Institute of Computer Graphics and Algorithms, Vienna University of Technology, Austria, just released a video demonstrating how he has taught a neural network using large data sets to recognize and eliminate shadows from a face in a photograph. As detailed in the video, the neural network was taught by giving it photographs of faces to which shadows had been added artificially.<\/p>\n<p>Given its effectiveness and the quality of the results, it seems only a matter of time before smartphones give you the option to remove shadows. In theory, you might even be able to switch on shadow removal while taking the photograph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Photoshop can do a pretty good job at removing shadows from faces, there\u2019s a fair amount of legwork involved. One scientist has shown that neural networks and artificial intelligence can produce some very impressive results, suggesting that it will soon be a part of how we edit our photos. K\u00e1roly Zsolnai-Feh\u00e9r of Two Minute [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1512,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}