[HN Gopher] New algorithm unlocks high-resolution insights for c...
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       New algorithm unlocks high-resolution insights for computer vision
        
       Author : zerojames
       Score  : 39 points
       Date   : 2024-03-19 20:28 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | TOMDM wrote:
       | The papers actual page feels like a clearer explanation to me.
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       | https://mhamilton.net/featup.html
        
       | frozenport wrote:
       | Is a learned downsampler a form of inverse crime?
       | https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0401050
        
       | fxtentacle wrote:
       | What an amazing idea :)
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       | They reproject the input images and run the low-res network
       | multiple times. Then they use an approach similar to NeRF to
       | merge the knowledge from those reprojected images into a super-
       | resolution result.
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       | So in a way, this is quite similar to how modern Pixel phones can
       | take a burst of frames and merge them into a final image that has
       | a higher resolution than the sensor. Except that they run useful
       | AI processing in between and then do the super-resolution merge
       | on the results.
        
       | skybrian wrote:
       | It's not that clear why they are downsampling and then upsampling
       | again. Why not do all the work at the original resolution?
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       | Apparently, the issue is that some vision algorithms only output
       | a low-res representation and _that_ needs to be upsampled to
       | match the original?
        
         | og_kalu wrote:
         | >It's not that clear why they are downsampling and then
         | upsampling again. Why not do all the work at the original
         | resolution?
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         | For NNs, This is pretty much a compute efficiency thing.
         | Working on the original resolution directly is more compute
         | intensive.
        
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