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How artificial intelligence sharpens blurry thermal vision images

A new technology could one day help improve self-driving cars

Conventional thermal vision depicts this nighttime scene of a forest road in ghostly grays (top). A new AI-aided technology takes thermal data and creates a sharper image (bottom). The system adds color based on the objects detected, shading water blue, for example.

Conventional thermal vision depicts this nighttime scene of a forest road in ghostly grays (top). A new AI-aided technology takes thermal data and creates a sharper image (bottom). The system adds color based on the objects detected, shading water blue, for example.

F. Bao et al/Nature 2023

By Luis Melecio-Zambrano

The fuzzy, ghostly figures typically seen in thermal images might become a thing of the past.