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Just did some move testing since the RealESRGAN AI anime up-scaling is so fun to play with. I initially thought that the video version is just a lower quality version that processes the images faster to make the conversion of videos (that are made out of LOST of pictures) less painful, but no: It do...

"I'm not sure why it's doing this, but it is and it works." This kind of **** happens all the time when you did not design some complex system like a piece of software yourself and try to modify it by means of reverse engineering. When you have designed something yourself it is a complete...

Considering your very first post said you expected the few people remaining here to be lazy, I'd say this is not gonna end well. Tbh it's most likely not gonna happen for one reason or another so why do you keep pushing for this? I'm not invested in this thread but I see it updated almost daily wit...

I performed minimal testing on one such attempt. Here are the immediately obvious problems jumping out, and I'm pretty sure thorough testing would find some more. In case of KS I don't think that there will be a lack of volunteers who might help with testing. KS was one of the most popular VNs for ...

Ah, come on, man. You can't tell us you did a bunch more pictures and then not share the pictures. That's just a tease. I wish I could share them, but I can't. Do you see that giant ban-hammer hanging over me? I'm lucky that I wasn't crushed by it already . There are reasons why KS was released und...

So far the general approach to up-scale a picture would look like this. The path I marked green is what I expect for the overwhelming majority of the pictures. (I actually tested MANY pictures from KS. I just didn't share all of them here. Actually I was rather surprised how damn well the AI worked ...

A cut out piece for those who do not know how to view the picture in full size. You might see that the sharpness of a long straight line that goes right through the boundary of the mask is transitioning a bit to quickly, but of course this can be fixed by working on the mask just a little longer. (I...

Here is the entire image properly up-scaled by combining AI and DCCI (view it at full size!!1) and the mask that was used to do so. Both Gimp and Photoshop are capable of applying blur to the mask automatically. Note how damn easy it was to make such a mask. Except for the eyebrow and the mouth (tha...

... I think we should avoid discussing already existing unofficial modifications here or the whole thread might be deleted by the moderators. I started this thread to show of what's possible and what 4LS could do if only they wanted to, not to violate their copyrights or help anyone violate their c...

One more thing I wanted to show off is how the masking I mentioned earlier works and how it helps to restore the few details that are messed up by the AI. As I mentioned earlier I am not very happy with how the AI removed Emi's eyebrow, which makes her facial expression less dramatic. To be honest I...

Anyway it seems like the devs already started to get angry because I am sharing to many pictures under their copyright here, so I am stopping doing that for now. My intention was to show what is possible and I think that I have shown enough. P.S.: I feel the need to resolve a misunderstanding. The b...

In case that there are people with strong enough hardware who are not super experienced with computers and find the usage of the command-line to complicated I can provide a batch-file that helps with that and allows starting the conversion process by means of simple double-clicking.

my computer doesn't want to run the thing. I'm not surprised that many people can't use it. The current global chip shortage made the prices of the GPUs skyrocket. If I didn't "swallow a bitter pill" and upgraded mine I also wouldn't be able to use this. If this tool doesn't work for you ...

"DCCI" might also be an interesting method for the cases where AI fails, but I'm to lazy to test it out, so here is a picture by someone else. According to the results so far AI is the best method when sharpness is desired and "DCCI" is the best method when sharpness is undesired...

Another very good example where lanczos just happens to work better than AI due to STRONG intended blur. (The first one was the blurry picture with Rin.)

ORIGINAL: LANCZOS UPSCALED: AI UPSCALED: