waifu2x

https://github.com/nagadomi/waifu2x

Image Super-Resolution for anime/fan-art using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks.
Demo-Application can be found at http://waifu2x.udp.jp/ .

Why the fuck wasn't this posted here, you fucking redditor weebs?

It's a magical 2D art scaler/denoiser. Someone should give it one of those 320x420 dakimakura samples and post the results.

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The waifu nigger is less blurry, specifically eyes are sharper. Same for pixel art and many textures: waifu blurs less than xbrz.

Interesting, can you use this algorithm for lossy/loseless compression based on pixel prediction? Say you subtract original image pixels from its downsampled version, which, when image predict original, reduces channel bandwidth.