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

38 points by mrafii 2y ago

dmead 2y ago
I'm going to try my astrophotography pics
- dmead 2y ago
  Nothing works.
trebor 2y 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.
kierenj 2y ago
"Top interior design trends" - title of the login page?
- kierenj 2y ago
  Ah - based on https://kitchengpt.io/room-design https://kitchengpt.io/room-design
  - troebr 2y ago
    Maybe they're cranking out AI SaaS products to see what sticks. I was going to say low effort, but it's not zero effort and does offer some kind of service. I could have used some AI help for my kitchen design, I hated the process.
rasz 2y ago
Those should be legally forced to be called Hallucinators.
- addaon 2y ago
  Where do you live where you feel that this is an important issue for your legislators to focus on? It sounds nice!
  - exe34 2y ago
    to be fair, every government of a reasonably prosperous country is trying to figure out how to control the potential AI economy. if not legally, we should at least as a community remind people that it's basically making up the details. personally I look forward to seeing it used in court and completely tanking a case or two. that should draw some attention to the danger.
  - hidelooktropic 2y ago
    Where do you live where your community only has room for one piece of legislation?
- slipperybeluga 2y ago
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- echelon 2y ago
  Should we legally call image editing software "bag of assorted image processing algorithms"?
- jrm4 2y 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.
halostatue 2y ago
Google login only? Not interested. I’m trying to reduce my dependence on Google properties.
TripleChecker 2y ago
Are you planning to provide an API for uploading images? You also have a typo 'with with', see our report: https://triplechecker.com/s/88266/imageupscaler.io https://triplechecker.com/s/88266/imageupscaler.io.
xnx 2y 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://huggingface.co/fal/AuraSR https://upscayl.org/ https://upscayl.org/ https://www.topazlabs.com/gigapixel https://www.topazlabs.com/gigapixel https://skylum.com/luminar/upscale-ai https://skylum.com/luminar/upscale-ai https://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop-lightroom/super-resolution.html https://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop-lightroom/super-res... https://www.upscale.media/ https://www.upscale.media/ https://ai.nero.com/image-upscaler https://ai.nero.com/image-upscaler https://imgupscaler.com/ https://imgupscaler.com/ etc.
- jazzyjackson 2y 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/ https://www.acdsee.com/en/photo-studio/ai/
  - xnx 2y ago
    Very cool. More of these AI capabilities need to be available locally without managing a Python environment.
  - jakub_g 2y ago
    ACDSee - wow, it's been a while since I saw this name! For the not familiar: it's been one of better photo viewer apps on Windows in early 2000s. At some point I learnt about IrfanView though and moved to it. (And then moved to MacOS). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACDSee https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACDSee
    - scotty79 2y ago
      Last time I heard it was before I switched to FastStone
    - 2y ago
theusus 2y ago
> Can the Image Upscaler be used for enlarging images other than just photos? Ehh
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mawise 2y 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 https://imgur.com/a/Vo3zlO3
- bubaumba 2y 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.
- thebruce87m 2y ago
  Lets upscale the grassy knoll and see if we can see Ryan Gosling https://petapixel.com/2020/08/17/gigapixel-ai-accidentally-added-ryan-goslings-face-to-this-photo/ https://petapixel.com/2020/08/17/gigapixel-ai-accidentally-a...
Nihilartikel 2y 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 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.
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wackget 2y 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 2y 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.
rumblestrut 2y ago
No free trial? Pass.
sys_64738 2y ago
It costs money? I was all ready to use it until it wanted money.

38 points by mrafii 2y ago

dmead 2y ago

I'm going to try my astrophotography pics

dmead 2y ago
Nothing works.

trebor 2y 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.

kierenj 2y ago

"Top interior design trends" - title of the login page?

kierenj 2y ago
Ah - based on https://kitchengpt.io/room-design https://kitchengpt.io/room-design
- troebr 2y ago
  Maybe they're cranking out AI SaaS products to see what sticks. I was going to say low effort, but it's not zero effort and does offer some kind of service. I could have used some AI help for my kitchen design, I hated the process.

rasz 2y ago

Those should be legally forced to be called Hallucinators.

addaon 2y ago
Where do you live where you feel that this is an important issue for your legislators to focus on? It sounds nice!
- exe34 2y ago
  to be fair, every government of a reasonably prosperous country is trying to figure out how to control the potential AI economy. if not legally, we should at least as a community remind people that it's basically making up the details. personally I look forward to seeing it used in court and completely tanking a case or two. that should draw some attention to the danger.
- hidelooktropic 2y ago
  Where do you live where your community only has room for one piece of legislation?
slipperybeluga 2y ago
[dead]
echelon 2y ago
Should we legally call image editing software "bag of assorted image processing algorithms"?
jrm4 2y 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.

halostatue 2y ago

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

TripleChecker 2y ago

Are you planning to provide an API for uploading images? You also have a typo 'with with', see our report: https://triplechecker.com/s/88266/imageupscaler.io https://triplechecker.com/s/88266/imageupscaler.io.

xnx 2y 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://huggingface.co/fal/AuraSR https://upscayl.org/ https://upscayl.org/ https://www.topazlabs.com/gigapixel https://www.topazlabs.com/gigapixel https://skylum.com/luminar/upscale-ai https://skylum.com/luminar/upscale-ai https://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop-lightroom/super-resolution.html https://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop-lightroom/super-res... https://www.upscale.media/ https://www.upscale.media/ https://ai.nero.com/image-upscaler https://ai.nero.com/image-upscaler https://imgupscaler.com/ https://imgupscaler.com/ etc.

jazzyjackson 2y 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/ https://www.acdsee.com/en/photo-studio/ai/
- xnx 2y ago
  Very cool. More of these AI capabilities need to be available locally without managing a Python environment.
- jakub_g 2y ago
  ACDSee - wow, it's been a while since I saw this name! For the not familiar: it's been one of better photo viewer apps on Windows in early 2000s. At some point I learnt about IrfanView though and moved to it. (And then moved to MacOS). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACDSee https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACDSee
  - scotty79 2y ago
    Last time I heard it was before I switched to FastStone
  - 2y ago

theusus 2y ago

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

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mawise 2y 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 https://imgur.com/a/Vo3zlO3

bubaumba 2y 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.
thebruce87m 2y ago
Lets upscale the grassy knoll and see if we can see Ryan Gosling https://petapixel.com/2020/08/17/gigapixel-ai-accidentally-added-ryan-goslings-face-to-this-photo/ https://petapixel.com/2020/08/17/gigapixel-ai-accidentally-a...

Nihilartikel 2y 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 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.

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wackget 2y 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 2y 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.

rumblestrut 2y ago

No free trial? Pass.

sys_64738 2y ago

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