>RAISR produces results that are comparable to or better than the currently available super-resolution methods, and does so roughly 10 to 100 times faster, allo

>RAISR produces results that are comparable to or better than the currently available super-resolution methods, and does so roughly 10 to 100 times faster, allowing it to be run on a typical mobile device in real-time....For example, in addition to improving digital “pinch to zoom” on your phone, one could capture, save, or transmit images at lower resolution and super-resolve on demand without any visible degradation in quality, all while utilizing less of mobile data and storage plans. > In our proposed approach, the run-time is more than one to two orders of magnitude faster than the best competing methods currently available, while producing results comparable or better than state-of-the-art. From the blog post & article, I think the idea is that you ship a small CNN (a few MB model size, which will accordingly run in realtime on mobile GPUs) to the Android device, and then when browsing, it downloads a small thumbnail (cheap on bandwidth, quick to download), and upscale it as necessary locally on the device.