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Show HN: AI Image Upscaler and Photo Enhancer with up to 10x resolution boost

38 points| mrafii | 1 year ago |imageupscaler.io

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xnx|1 year ago

What model does this use? Anything that sets it apart from the dozens of other open-source/free/pay upscalers?

https://huggingface.co/fal/AuraSR

https://upscayl.org/

https://www.topazlabs.com/gigapixel

https://skylum.com/luminar/upscale-ai

https://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop-lightroom/super-res...

https://www.upscale.media/

https://ai.nero.com/image-upscaler

https://imgupscaler.com/

etc.

jazzyjackson|1 year ago

I'll just add one more as a happy customer who would never upload personal photos to some AI service: ACDSee [0] has local AI tagging and super resolution upscaling without any associated cloud services or subscriptions, it's just a one time purchase lifetime license - basically a lightroom classic competitor.

[0] https://www.acdsee.com/en/photo-studio/ai/

giantrobot|1 year ago

> Anything that sets it apart from the dozens of other open-source/free/pay upscalers?

This needs a very compelling answer since it's asking for a Netflix* subscription to do 50 images in a month.

* Or whatever streaming service that's providing decades worth of content for $15 a month.

wackget|1 year ago

Is this post a spam submission?

The website looks like a super generic landing page template; the kind you find when you search "youtube video downloader" and similar.

Take that "#1 AI Image Upscaler" banner for example. #1 according to who? The AI Image Upscaler Academy Awards panel?

drcongo|1 year ago

As soon as I saw that weird banner I checked if it linked to whatever had given it this award, and then closed the tab.

mawise|1 year ago

It's important to remember that these upscalers will hallucinate new content. Especially when law enforcement tries to use these to find suspects from blurry photos. See this example from the lower left of their front-page demo where it adds a person to the boat: https://imgur.com/a/Vo3zlO3

bubaumba|1 year ago

I'm thinking the right way of doing it is to embed in a viewer. So that the original stays untouched but visible quality gets better with new technologies.

trebor|1 year ago

Upvoted because your ToS is very clear about the images we scale aren't used to improve training. Thank you for that.

I have some pretty old photos I may have to pull out and upscale. They're from back in the old 1MP camera days.

halostatue|1 year ago

Google login only? Not interested. I’m trying to reduce my dependence on Google properties.

Nihilartikel|1 year ago

This looks pretty good! Results of roughly this caliber are already really common with local, and freely usable tools and models though. Picking one randomly: https://github.com/jtscmw01/ComfyUI-DiffBIR

The Reddit StableDiffusion and related groups have a ton of upscaling workflows that use diffusion models, GANS and the like to dream up the additional pixels for extreme zoom-and-enhance use cases.

rasz|1 year ago

Those should be legally forced to be called Hallucinators.

jrm4|1 year ago

Honestly, this is the first time I've seen "hallucinate" used usefully and properly. I get that putting legal teeth on this idea is difficult and fraught with pitfalls, but I believe the benefit outweighs the risk.

Similar to, but more useful than, when food producers lobby for fake versions of their food to be labelled as such, and to perhaps not have that name.

echelon|1 year ago

Should we legally call image editing software "bag of assorted image processing algorithms"?

addaon|1 year ago

Where do you live where you feel that this is an important issue for your legislators to focus on? It sounds nice!

sys_64738|1 year ago

It costs money? I was all ready to use it until it wanted money.

dmead|1 year ago

I'm going to try my astrophotography pics

dmead|1 year ago

Nothing works.

theusus|1 year ago

> Can the Image Upscaler be used for enlarging images other than just photos?

Ehh