Whether or not their sampling is impressive given the current state of the art (though in that same set the other, non-bicubic methods seem to do pretty well co

Whether or not their sampling is impressive given the current state of the art (though in that same set the other, non-bicubic methods seem to do pretty well compared to LapSRN), that gif definitely seems misleading. It's not obvious at all what is happening here, and it doesn't really even show off their method very well (as, say, separate gifs for each of the downsampling rates and/or clearly labeled frames). The way it is now, it really seems like each progressive enhancement is another stage in the image reconstruction.