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Re: Show HN: Image Upscaler AI

#11

These image upscalers always seem to remove noise in ways that make the result look terrible. You should be adding reasonable texture, not smearing surfaces in vaseline.

If you want to provide good upscaling results you need to use a latent scaler but these are compute intensive so the easier way is to just blow it through a gan like here.

Re: Show HN: Image Upscaler AI

#12

This website is just a wrapper around https://github.com/brycedrennan/imaginAIry which is a wrapper around various neural networks, e.g. https://github.com/xinntao/Real-ESRGAN in this case.

To be fair they're not hiding it. There's a link to imaginAIry in the footer, even on the pricing page.

Re: Show HN: Image Upscaler AI

#13

Your automatic italian localization is incredibly bad. Examples: "Stiamo usando un fork dell'immaginazione per alimentare la nostra intelligenza artificiale, e il nostro progetto è sviluppato con Django per il sito web." -> "We are using a fork of imagination for feeding our artificial intelligence, and our project is developed with Django for the website". "Migliora le tue foto, cartoni animati, immagini e più facil…

The Spanish translation has similar errors. In particular the two "y" (and) in the initial sentence make it difficult to read. (I think it's grammatically correct, but it's too difficult to understand.) Also the name of the project imaginAIry is translated to "imaginación" (imagination), but it should have been left unchanged.

The term of service are in English, anyway.

Re: Show HN: Image Upscaler AI

#14

These image upscalers always seem to remove noise in ways that make the result look terrible. You should be adding reasonable texture, not smearing surfaces in vaseline.

They're using established open source models and code, just under their own web UI. Specifically Real-ESRGAN for the upscaling, and Codeformer for the face enhancements, which is what most people are doing. Though my company is using GFPGAN for the facial enhancements at the moment. "AI Image Enhancement" websites are all using the same stuff.

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Re: Show HN: Image Upscaler AI

#15
I haven't tested it yet, but I suggest that you have a "per image" price for those who use it sporadically.

I could be a potential user, but not for 24/m for the 50 images I can do per month.

Re: Show HN: Image Upscaler AI

#16

This website is just a wrapper around https://github.com/brycedrennan/imaginAIry which is a wrapper around various neural networks, e.g. https://github.com/xinntao/Real-ESRGAN in this case.

Are you using the word "just" in a dismissive manner?

Re: Show HN: Image Upscaler AI

#17

This website is just a wrapper around https://github.com/brycedrennan/imaginAIry which is a wrapper around various neural networks, e.g. https://github.com/xinntao/Real-ESRGAN in this case.

my test image is number 201 in the queue, so might as well just run upscayl locally. https://github.com/upscayl/upscayl

Re: Show HN: Image Upscaler AI

#18

These image upscalers always seem to remove noise in ways that make the result look terrible. You should be adding reasonable texture, not smearing surfaces in vaseline.

This is especially obvious for the Machu Picchu image where the cobble stone walls are turned into different walls. Original: https://imageupscalerai.com/static/images/test-machupicchu.j... Upscaled: https://imageupscalerai.com/static/images/result-machupicchu...

Yeah, that upscale result is horrendous. It would never be acceptable in professional situations. It looks like something rendered in a 3D system with a cell shader plugin

Re: Show HN: Image Upscaler AI

#19
post #11

These image upscalers always seem to remove noise in ways that make the result look terrible. You should be adding reasonable texture, not smearing surfaces in vaseline.

If you want to provide good upscaling results you need to use a latent scaler but these are compute intensive so the easier way is to just blow it through a gan like here.

What are some examples of latent scaler upsamplers?

Re: Show HN: Image Upscaler AI

#20

These image upscalers always seem to remove noise in ways that make the result look terrible. You should be adding reasonable texture, not smearing surfaces in vaseline.

Not always. One notable example which left me really impressed was letsenhance.io (admittedly I almost started working for them at one point but ultimately took a different route).
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