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.

In theory, sure.

You could have just said no.

if you're afraid of that, maybe you sh

"Afraid" and "having enough of a life that digging into an arcane proprietary GPU API that will almost certainly be completely useless in several years is a waste of time" are two different things.

Amazon rents GPU

So I need to rent time on a mainframe just to run software? Terrible! The only reason I asked is that I bought some shitty Nvidia card to play some stupid video games. Nice to know it is already obsolete.