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.

>>16
Pixelation isn't artifacts. Besides that, it is a neural net trained to upscale anime porn; the fact that it does so well with text and photos is still impressive.

I'm just glad that someone is doing something useful with NN instead of just holding press conferences saying ``Doh hoh, we got this neural net we paid four hundred million dollars for to identify a cat in a video one time'' like Google does.

>>15
I'm surprised it has preserved pixeled font as pixeled. I.e. no blur. That is the only upscaling algorithm discerning between antialiased and non-antialiased. Also love how it have amplified deficiencies in Linux's font hinting, look at the `x` in "Mentifex"