Photo Upsampling via Latent Space Exploration (Pulse)

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Tiny Images, Outsized Biases: Why MIT withdrew the Tiny Images dataset

MIT withdrew a popular computer vision dataset after researchers found that it was rife with social bias. Researchers found racist, misogynistic, and demeaning labels among the nearly 80 million pictures in Tiny Images, a collection of 32-by-32 pixel color photos.

Examples of high-resolution versions of low-resolution images.

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Image Resolution in Black and White: Behind the Pulse controversy about bias in machine learning

A new model designed to sharpen images tends to turn some dark faces white, igniting fresh furor over bias in machine learning. Photo Upsampling via Latent Space Exploration (Pulse) generates high-resolution versions of low-resolution images.