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Let's Enhance HD

Duncan RobsonCited 4× on HN, 2014–2024
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comedy · general · evergreen · 2014–2024 on HN

A two-minute supercut of film and TV characters ordering a computer to 'enhance' a blurry image into a perfectly sharp one. It is a remaster of an earlier 2009 version.

HN uses it as a punchline in threads about image upscaling and super-resolution, where the movie trope has become partly real.

Film & TV clipsComputer vision, speech & NLPSatire & parody#enhance#supercut#hollywood#imageupscaling

4 comments from Hacker News

@mrbluecoat2024-04 · in “Upscayl – Free and Open Source AI Image Upscaler”

I used to laugh so hard at those tv and movie scenes when they would "enhance" an image: ▶ this video I guess yesterday's science fiction is now our reality.

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@fosterfriends2023-07 · in “Mathematics in Movies”

I used to laugh a the "let's enhance" (and still do), but watching generative image models get better, I wonder if fiction will become a reality, abet with lots of hallucinations. At least the enhanced reflections of perpetrators' faces will have a lovely mid-journey art style. classic compilation of "Let's enhance" - ▶ this video

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@dankohn12016-10 · in “Subpixel: A subpixel convolutional neural network implementation with Tensorflow”

Here is the ridiculous Let's Enhance supercut that all just became realistic: ▶ this video (Created by the super talented duncanrobson)

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@pearjuice2014-05 · in “How taking pictures through windows can inadvertently reveal your location”

Reminds me of the ridiculous enhancement processes in Hollywood. Except this time... it's real. ▶ this video

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