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

What model does this use? Anything that sets it apart from the dozens of other open-source/free/pay upscalers?

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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/

jakub_g · a year 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

xnx · a year ago

Very cool. More of these AI capabilities need to be available locally without managing a Python environment.

giantrobot · a year ago

> Anything that sets it apart from the dozens of other open-source/free/pay upscalers?

This needs a very compelling answer since it's asking for a Netflix* subscription to do 50 images in a month.

* Or whatever streaming service that's providing decades worth of content for $15 a month.

mentos · a year ago

Haha I mean you could also argue Netflix is underpriced?

wackget · a year 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 · a year 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.

mawise · a year 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

thebruce87m · a year ago

Lets upscale the grassy knoll and see if we can see Ryan Gosling

https://petapixel.com/2020/08/17/gigapixel-ai-accidentally-a...

bubaumba · a year 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.

trebor · a year 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.

halostatue · a year ago

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

kierenj · a year ago

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

Ah - based on https://kitchengpt.io/room-design

troebr · a year 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.

Nihilartikel · a year 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

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.

TripleChecker · a year 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.