How to Enhance and Beautify Portrait Photos with AI

24 September 2026
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How to Enhance and Beautify Portrait Photos with AI

Many portrait photographs do not achieve the desired quality due to indistinct facial features, poor lighting, or dull skin tones on older cameras and devices. Overuse of filters in certain…

SenseNova-U1: NEO-unify multimodal architecture works directly with pixels without VAE

14 May 2026
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SenseNova-U1: NEO-unify multimodal architecture works directly with pixels without VAE

SenseNova introduced a new multimodal architecture, SenseNova-U1, which combines image understanding, generation, and editing inside a single transformer without a separate visual encoder or variational autoencoder. This approach removes the…

PixelSmile: Open Model for Facial Expression Editing with Smooth Intensity Control

31 March 2026
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PixelSmile: Open Model for Facial Expression Editing with Smooth Intensity Control

Researchers from Fudan University and StepFun have published PixelSmile — a diffusion model for precise facial expression editing in portraits and anime images. Instead of training on discrete labels like…

RealRestorer: Open-Source Image Enhancement Model Outperforms Nano Banana Pro on Real-World Benchmark

30 March 2026
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RealRestorer: Open-Source Image Enhancement Model Outperforms Nano Banana Pro on Real-World Benchmark

A team of researchers from StepFun, Southern University of Science and Technology, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences has published RealRestorer — an open-source image quality enhancement model that removes…

Google Launches Gemini 2.5 Flash Image with Text-Based Editing Capabilities

26 August 2025
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Google Launches Gemini 2.5 Flash Image with Text-Based Editing Capabilities

Google introduced Gemini 2.5 Flash Image (with internal codename nano-banana) — a model for image generation and editing. The model supports combining multiple images into one, maintains character consistency between…

ArtAug: Open Source Framework for Image Generation Models Enhancement

18 December 2024
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ArtAug: Open Source Framework for Image Generation Models Enhancement

East China Normal University and Alibaba Group researchers have introduced ArtAug, a framework that enhances text-to-image generation through synthesis-understanding interaction. This approach significantly improves image quality without requiring extensive manual…

Ideogram 2.0: Generating Text on Images with Unmatched Accuracy

22 August 2024

Ideogram 2.0: Generating Text on Images with Unmatched Accuracy

Ideogram launched its groundbreaking Ideogram 2.0 model, setting new standards in the text-to-image generation space. Trained from scratch, Ideogram 2.0 significantly outperforms existing models in key quality metrics such as…

Best AI Photo Generator Apps: Top 10 Selection

12 September 2023
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Best AI Photo Generator Apps: Top 10 Selection

Which AI can draw pictures from words with maximum quality and minimal time investment? We have conducted research to find out the best AI photo generator apps that create images…

Sketch to Image AI: Transforming Sketches into Detailed Drawings

14 July 2023
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Sketch to Image AI: Transforming Sketches into Detailed Drawings

Stability AI presents Stable Doodle, an advanced neural network that utilizes Sketch-to-Image AI technology. With Stable Doodle, users can effortlessly convert sketches into highly detailed and realistic drawings. Discover how…

PACGen: Personalized and Controllable Text-to-Image Generation

7 July 2023
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PACGen: Personalized and Controllable Text-to-Image Generation

Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have introduced a text-to-image diffusion model called PACGen (Personalized and Controllable Text-to-Image Generation) for transferring objects from one image to a new scene generated…

Uncrop: AI Image Outpainting Online with Stable Diffusion XL

11 June 2023
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Uncrop: AI Image Outpainting Online with Stable Diffusion XL

Uncrop is an AI neural network that draws outpainting images in your browser using the specifically fine-tuned Stable Diffusion XL model. The model analyzes the content of the uploaded image…

The neural network generates images with clothes try on

14 March 2021

The neural network generates images with clothes try on

PF-AFN is a neural network that generates images of people trying on different kinds of clothes. The model accepts an image of a person and an image of a garment…

SAM: the neural network changes the age on the image of a person’s face

17 February 2021

SAM: the neural network changes the age on the image of a person’s face

SAM is a neural network model that changes the age of a person in an image. The model takes as input an image of a person’s face and target age.…

Deepfake Videos: GAN Synthesizes a Talking Head From a Single Photo

25 May 2019
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Deepfake Videos: GAN Synthesizes a Talking Head From a Single Photo

Researchers from Samsung AI and Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology have presented a neural network that can create realistic fake videos of a talking head, given only a few…

Dissecting GANs for Better Understanding and Visualization

5 December 2018
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Dissecting GANs for Better Understanding and Visualization

GANs can be taught to create (or generate) worlds similar to our own in any domain: images, music, speech, etc. Since 2014, a large number of improvements of GANs have…

Adobe Creates Neural Network to Reveal Image Manipulations

11 July 2018
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Adobe Creates Neural Network to Reveal Image Manipulations

Image editing is not a challenging task anymore. User-friendly editing software makes a process of image tampering and manipulating very straightforward, and unfortunately, tampered images are more and more often…