Seeing what's not there. IMG Series 4 NNA meets Visidon's deep-learning-based Super Resolution technology

By Imagination Technologies Group plc

May 12, 2022

Last year I read a fascinating article on LinkedIn about using deep-learning-based super-resolution networks to increase the apparent detail contained in images and videos sent back by Nasa’s Perseverance Rover. This article got me thinking about how, when I first watched Blade Runner in the 90s, scenes such as “enhance 15 to 23” seemed so implausible based on the technology available at that time. At that point (and because of films like Blade Runner) I was embarking on a three-year degree course in artificial intelligence and I could not have predicted the impact of the deep learning revolution at the start of the millennium. You can’t add what isn’t there, I kept saying to myself. But now, it seems, you can – and it’s extremely convincing.

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