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Unmush

Fix the faces your upscaler mushed

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AI upscalers sharpen a photo by inventing detail. On a small face, that can mean a different person. That's the mush. Feed Unmush the pair, your original and the upscaled file: it rebuilds the damaged faces from the real ones and checks each result. Faces the upscaler got right are left untouched, free of charge.

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PH · launched Oct 27, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%)

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Partial A pipeline that compares original and upscaled images, detects faces, and restores them using face restoration models is buildable with existing libraries. Guaranteeing the restored face matches the real person without invented detail is a hard research-grade problem.

What it would actually take: Combine face detection and alignment, face embedding models for identity checks, and a restoration model conditioned on the original face, with per-face verification that reverts bad results. Tuning the identity-preservation tradeoff needs ML experience and a labeled evaluation set. Output quality on small faces will depend on careful model selection and testing.

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Attention rank: #53 of 173 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 328 days after the earliest competitor.

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