Neural Photo Editor

Re:Neural Photo Editor by amelius on Saturday September 24, 2016 @12:58PM (#12571625)

I'm wondering, can a similar technique be used to zoom-in on a photo? If you can detect features of the face (eyes, nose, mouth), and you have a library of examples of these features at high resolution, you can supposedly fill-in the missing details of a zoomed-in image using this library.

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Re:Neural Photo Editor by rcpt on Saturday September 24, 2016 @01:09PM (#12571674)

There are a few ways to go about this eg. using adversarial or deconvolutional networks. Super resolution is a little tricky to evaluate so it's hard to have good benchmarks but Waifu2x is the best-named approach thus far.

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Re:Neural Photo Editor by amelius on Saturday September 24, 2016 @01:49PM (#12571829)

Wow, thanks! Waifu2x looks very useful!

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Re:Neural Photo Editor by carpenumidium on Saturday September 24, 2016 @07:22PM (#12573085)

Waifu2x is best suited for artwork though. It doesn't scale photographs all that well fme.

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Re:Neural Photo Editor by Darkenetor on Saturday September 24, 2016 @09:28PM (#12573420)

Nnedi3 does.

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Re:Neural Photo Editor by dharma1 on Saturday September 24, 2016 @01:46PM (#12571816)

Yes

http://arxiv.org/abs/1609.04802

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Re:Neural Photo Editor by achr2 on Sunday September 25, 2016 @11:39AM (#12575762)

That is really interesting. This type of enlargement is amazing for purely aesthetic consumption. The most impressive aspect is the ability to maintain accurate sharpness across the details, even when those fine details themselves cannot be reconstructed.

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Re:Neural Photo Editor by hasenj on Saturday September 24, 2016 @09:44PM (#12573477)

I think at best it would be like an artist "guessing" what face looks like from a lower resolution image.

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