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Let's Enhance HD

879K views · Jul 4, 2013 · 1:44 · 0 HN recommenders · 4 mentions · discussed 2014–2024

A two-minute supercut of film and TV characters ordering a computer to 'enhance' a blurry image into a perfectly sharp one. It is a remaster of an earlier 2009 version.

Why Hacker News points people here: HN uses it as a punchline in threads about image upscaling and super-resolution, where the movie trope has become partly real.

What Hacker News said 4

JokepearjuiceMay 2014

“Reminds me of the ridiculous enhancement processes in Hollywood.”

Hollywood enhance clips as punchline.

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Reminds me of the ridiculous enhancement processes in Hollywood. Except this time... it's real. this video

in “How taking pictures through windows can inadvertently reveal your location” · view on HN
Jokedankohn1Oct 2016

“Here is the ridiculous Let's Enhance supercut that all just became realistic”

Let's Enhance supercut made realistic by super-resolution.

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Here is the ridiculous Let's Enhance supercut that all just became realistic: this video (Created by the super talented duncanrobson)

in “Subpixel: A subpixel convolutional neural network implementation with Tensorflow” · view on HN
JokefosterfriendsJul 2023

“classic compilation of "Let's enhance" -”

Classic enhance compilation.

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I used to laugh a the "let's enhance" (and still do), but watching generative image models get better, I wonder if fiction will become a reality, abet with lots of hallucinations. At least the enhanced reflections of perpetrators' faces will have a lovely mid-journey art style. classic compilation of "Let's enhance" - this video

JokemrbluecoatApr 2024

“I used to laugh so hard at those tv and movie scenes when they would "enhance" an image”

Enhance scenes once laughable, now real.

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I used to laugh so hard at those tv and movie scenes when they would "enhance" an image: this video I guess yesterday's science fiction is now our reality.

in “Upscayl – Free and Open Source AI Image Upscaler” · view on HN