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Clarence Hu

AI Picture Restoration - Free way to remove scratches, sharpen colors, and fix photos

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Restore and repair pictures with AI. Hotpot builds on the latest research to automatically remove scratches, sharpen colors, and enhance faces, transforming damaged photos into cherished memories. Repair both color photos and black & white images for free.

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Clarence Hu
Maker
Hi Product Hunters! We're excited to launch AI Picture Restoration. This service is free and automatically removes scratches, sharpens colors, and enhances faces. The deep learning model repairs both color pictures and black & white ones. We built on top of extraordinary open-source research from the Microsoft team led by Ziyu Wan and Bo Zhang. Our changes included performance, quality, and image enhancements that render the academic model more fit for production use. While AI cannot match professionals, we have seen many people use this to restore damaged photos and revive cherished memories. The main adopters are consumers who can't afford professionally restored family pictures. In a surprising twist, professionals also use Hotpot to accelerate their workflow and serve more clients. If you repair photos with Hotpot, please share them: attach the before/after versions and background story. See here for how to create image comments. We're also launching our AI Picture Colorizer soon. Sign up here for our PH launch. Can anyone recognize who's in the first pair of pictures? :)
Clarence Hu
Maker
@_jonathanng_ Correct! :) Maybe I'll add a harder one in the comments.
Clarence Hu
Maker
@_jonathanng_ Here's a much harder one. Can anyone guess the second person in the picture? If it's too easy, I can also increase the trivia difficulty to headache level. :)
Tom Brown
@_jonathanng_ @clarence_hu @jan_mazurek based on the background which puts the date in 1983 or 1982 and the height difference of the second person, Iā€™d guess that the second person is Mike Markkula an early angle investor in Apple.
Clarence Hu
Maker
@jan_mazurek @tom_brown5 outstanding analysis!
Asad Ali
I was just talking to someone about there should be a product like this. Mind blow AI technology is being used. Have a bunch of family photos from the 60s that I want to get restored.
Clarence Hu
Maker
@asadoo93 Thanks Asad! Please also sign up for the AI Picture Colorizer, which we will launch soon as well. How did the family photos turn out that you tried restoring so far?
Asad Ali
@clarence_hu just got all the photos I want to restore - going to do it after work today. Super excited TBH. šŸ˜‡
Clarence Hu
Maker
@asadoo93 Awesome! If you have questions, feel free to message/email me. If any pictures convert poorly, please share them. We're constantly improving the model, and could use more training data.
Walter Williams
surprised that the images can not only be made softer, but also sharper. Respect.
Clarence Hu
Maker
@walter_williams Thanks very much, Walter!
Piotr Manel
Wow, I need to try this. I love technology and this "magic"
Clarence Hu
Maker
@coman_pl Thanks, Piotr! Hope we can help. If some images convert poorly, please share the results with api *at* hotpot dot ai.
B Sz
Very cool stuff helping a lot with digitizing old family photos :)
Jan Mazurek
@demogorgon2222 would you recommend that to business solution?
Jonathan Ng
I've been playing around with a couple of photo restoration/repair apps. Hotpot by far has the best one. I'm going to use this for an upcoming birthday present. My grandma is going to be so surprised when I show her old photos restored. Thank you!
Molly O'Neill
Going to try in out. Good luck and congratulations!
Clarence Hu
Maker
@molly_o_neill2 Thanks, Molly! Would love to hear how the pictures turn out.
Ryan Hoover
In high school they taught us how to restore old photos like this using Photoshop. Of course, it took several more hours than this. šŸ˜…
Clarence Hu
Maker
@rrhoover Thanks, Ryan. We're not as good as professionals yet, but we're working hard to close the gap. Were you trying to restore family photos or historic images?
Cathleen Turner
I like this! I had blurry pictures and it was able to clearly define lines around eyes and the smile. My grandmother and mother look beautiful.
Clarence Hu
Maker
@cathleen_turner Thanks, Cathleen. I'm glad we were able to help. :)
BW/COLOR/AI
I am running an Instagram project (@bwcolor.ai) dedicated to AI-powered black and white colorizations. I use available models like DeOldify or Instance-aware Colorisation. Would love to try/test your model, too. Ping me if interested! Peace!
Clarence Hu
Maker
@bwcolor @bwcolorai Hi there! Please message me separately. We're exploring different ways to open-source some of our models so happy to chat more.
Julia Gnedin
nice idea
Clarence Hu
Maker
@julia_gnedina Thanks Julia! Did you get a chance to try it yet?
Manou Febvret
Good job!
Clarence Hu
Maker
@manoufeb Thanks, Manou. Were you able to try any pictures?
Vlad Nekrutenko
Cool product! Does it have different regimes for photo formats?
Clarence Hu
Maker
@vlad_nekrutenko Hi Vlad! Do you mean can the service produce other formats besides PNG?
James Quinn
Wow, well done! Looks like the quality is really good after. I'll give it a try on my next photo project!
Clarence Hu
Maker
@james_afino Thanks, James! We're proud of the quality, but also realize there is plenty of room for improvement. If any pictures convert poorly, please email them to api -at- hotpot dot ai. This will bolster our training data.
Yevhenii Peteliev
Niceee! Looks very useful. Great job! I can't wait when I try it šŸ–¤ Congratulations!
Clarence Hu
Maker
@peteliev Thanks, Yevhenii. Please let us know how it works for you. If some photos don't convert well, please email them to api -at- hotpot dot ai. Thanks again for trying us out!
Skylar Ayden Lee Logan
it is cool
Sudharshan
Nice work @clarence_hu! Tried this model out when it came out and was pleasantly surprsied. Quick question, why aren't you pricing this? GPU hours are quite expensive right.