[HN Gopher] High Fidelity Image Generation Using Diffusion Models
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       High Fidelity Image Generation Using Diffusion Models
        
       Author : theafh
       Score  : 32 points
       Date   : 2021-07-16 17:40 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | antihero wrote:
       | I wish they'd show the outputs next to the source, not just the
       | input. They've created something convincing looking, but how true
       | is it to what was actually there?
        
         | edge17 wrote:
         | Sometimes it doesn't matter. Thats why sometimes lossy
         | compression is fine.
        
           | antihero wrote:
           | It's important to gauge the value of the result - is it
           | producing something that looks nice or something useful.
        
             | 317070 wrote:
             | It just looks nice. Once you downsample, you cannot
             | accurately upsample again. If the upsampled image looks
             | real to you, and if you would downsample that again you get
             | the same downsampled image, then you did the best you
             | could.
        
         | gigatexal wrote:
         | isn't that what they do here? https://iterative-
         | refinement.github.io/assets/cascade_movie2...
        
         | jaschasd wrote:
         | They show the source images next to the super-resolution output
         | on the website for the iterative refinement paper:
         | https://iterative-refinement.github.io/
        
           | antihero wrote:
           | Thanks!
        
         | barryp wrote:
         | Yes, I'd like to see 3 images: A) the original image _before_
         | it was downscaled to 64x64, B) the 64x64 input to the upscaler,
         | and C) the final upscaled image. So we can compare A and C
        
       | fxtentacle wrote:
       | This appears to be class-conditioned, meaning it only works for
       | images that show objects in one of the 1000 imagenet categories.
        
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