Abstract: Image restoration (IR) seeks to recover high-quality images from degraded observations caused by a wide range of factors, including noise, blur, compression, and adverse weather. While ...

The first major failure of Elon Musk’s chatbot Grok did not come in the form of a viral joke or a rogue post. It arrived as a product feature. In late December 2025, X rolled out a one-click image ...

Abstract: Vector-Quantization (VQ) based discrete generative models are widely used to learn powerful high-quality (HQ) priors for blind image restoration (BIR). In this paper, we diagnose the ...

Old photographs fade. It’s a chemical fact, a slow surrender to time and light. Colors drift toward sepia, then collapse into monochrome. Fine details soften, hiding behind scratches, dust, and noise.

GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, AZ (AZFamily) — Grand Canyon officials released new images of “emergency stabilization work” along the North Rim, where crews are rebuilding after the historic Dragon Bravo ...

"Each festive blind bag will include one (1) rare ratio variant—guaranteed to be at least a 1:25, but could even be a 1:100 incentive ratio variant—plucked from the archives at random to delight ...

In a news conference on Oct. 21 in Stuart, Fla., Governor Ron DeSantis highlighted recent success in Everglades restoration and invasive species removal. Social Security, Medicare are "going to be ...

In this tutorial, we build an Advanced OCR AI Agent in Google Colab using EasyOCR, OpenCV, and Pillow, running fully offline with GPU acceleration. The agent includes a preprocessing pipeline with ...

Watching paint dry is suddenly en vogue. Paris’s Musée d’Orsay’s surprise hit this season is a look at the ongoing restoration of Gustave Courbet’s “Un Enterrement à Ornans” (A Burial at Ornans). It ...

Archaeologists and divers retrieved a trove of ancient treasures Thursday from a 2,000-year-old sunken city off the coast of Alexandria, Egypt. Cranes carefully lifted these ancient artifacts from the ...