Waifu2x -- Image Upscaler

[Moge]

It doesn't actually upscale but rather redraws the image. The results are absolutely amazing.

Original


Waifu2x


Example 2

Original -- http://i.imgur.com/H1MCOtM.png
Waifu2x --  http://i.imgur.com/Ok5bp2E.png

Example 3

Original -- http://forum.videohelp.com/attachments/32039-1433372807/beachgaltheojuly.jpg
Waifu2x -- http://forum.videohelp.com/attachments/32040-1433372807/beachgaltheojuly(scale)(x2.000000).png


This is the version of Waifu2x i'm using (has English gui) -- https://github.com/lltcggie/waifu2x-caffe/releases

[Arizona]

First thing I did was throw about the hardest thing possible at it - screenshots from gorgeous, pixelated, but now tiny resolution PC-98 games. Unsurprisingly it didn't go well.

But obviously it does much better otherwise. I decided to try something on topic (notice: bare boobies):

Original -
http://i.imgur.com/160eN1F.jpg

Waifu2x -
http://i.imgur.com/0JvhFTy.png

Really impressive, and handles the noise issues in the original pretty well to boot. Thanks for bringing this up. Wish I could remember all those great tiny images I've found in the past that could use this...

[Moge]

First thing I did was throw about the hardest thing possible at it - screenshots from gorgeous, pixelated, but now tiny resolution PC-98 games. Unsurprisingly it didn't go well.

If you want to do that then use the Nearest Neighbor resize option in Photoshop to get a pixel perfect and clean upscaled 8-bit image.

[Arizona]

Oh suuuure, I COULD do the obvious and sensible thing, but why do that when I've got a new toy to test? Didn't you ever take your 2XL tapes as a kid and stick them in a regular cassette player? Or put computer CDs in your Playstation just to see what would happen??

[JG]

Or put computer CDs in your Playstation just to see what would happen??

Or Dreamcast GDs into a CD player or any other non-GD drive?  GDs were purposely designed with a CD-compatible audio track 1 with a message saying how it was incompatible in this device because they knew people would try it..  Some of the game developers modified this audio track to provide a non-standard comment, usually stopping just short of insulting you for not having the disc in a Dreamcast where it belonged.  Skies of Arcadia has the three character's voices banter for something like 45 seconds (Vyse: "Yeah! We can't save the world from a CD player!")

[Moge]

Around 1999 i was sticking PS1 discs into my computer disc drive to access hidden content.

I found audio to an unused ending in Symphony of the Night where Alucard kills all the good guys. On one of the Xenogears discs i found an unused music video.

Cool stuff

[Saika]

So this is a program that make images large?????? 

[G-1]

I totally need to try this to enhance some sprites !

[Moge]

I totally need to try this to enhance some sprites !

For anything 256 colors and below i recommend using Photoshop. Photoshop CS2 is freeware now if you google it.

So this is a program that make images large?????? 

Yeah you can essentially resize images to be poster sized with little loss in quality

[uphillbattle]

does this program support all sorts of picture files including GIFs?

i know this thread hasn't been touched lately and the sites mostly in Japanese so I wouldnt know.

[Moge]

only the first frame of the GIF