Yep, you can successfully do it without convolutions. Here is a pointer if you want to dig deeper: https://eng.uber.com/neural-networks-jpeg/ https://eng.uber.c

Yep, you can successfully do it without convolutions. Here is a pointer if you want to dig deeper: https://eng.uber.com/neural-networks-jpeg/ https://eng.uber.com/neural-networks-jpeg/ (there's prior art to that, but this one is well written)