Every smartphone camera applies ML post processing to the image, and have for multiple years now. The newest phones even have purpose-built tensor chips. It's why we can have crisp 100x zoom, night images in near total darkness, and daylight photos that look like they were taken with a much more expensive DSLR.
Phone manufacturers haven't been making revolutionary advances in image sensors or the centuries long science of camera optics — they've learned how to take a few noisy signals and extrapolate them into plausible high fidelity data.
Not exactly the same because the phone camera can take several sensor scans, bracketed or otherwise, to create one image that the user sees. Not surprised ML is involved, but it's more akin to a photographer taking several images and combining them in lightroom or photoshop than it is to this situation where the model only has one low-grade image to work with.
Depending on the application, this is a good model. It makes the maps look sharper. There are photo editing plugins that use similar technology.
I would hope courts of law would not admit any image edited in such a manner as evidence, though. The model is making it up.