Let's Enhance HD

Duncan Robson · 878.8K views · 2013-07-04 · 1:44

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Overview

A two-minute supercut of film and TV characters ordering a computer to 'enhance' a blurry image into a perfectly sharp one. It is a remaster of an earlier 2009 version.

On Hacker News

HN uses it as a punchline in threads about image upscaling and super-resolution, where the movie trope has become partly real.

Discussed on HN; no positive recommendation is recorded in this export · HN mentions 2014–2024

Topics

Film & TV clips Computer vision, speech & NLP Satire & parody

What people said

mrbluecoat · 2024-04 · Joke / meme
I used to laugh so hard at those tv and movie scenes when they would "enhance" an image: [VIDEO] I guess yesterday's science fiction is now our reality.
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fosterfriends · 2023-07 · Joke / meme
I used to laugh a the "let's enhance" (and still do), but watching generative image models get better, I wonder if fiction will become a reality, abet with lots of hallucinations. At least the enhanced reflections of perpetrators' faces will have a lovely mid-journey art style. classic compilation of "Let's enhance" - [VIDEO]
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dankohn1 · 2016-10 · Joke / meme
Here is the ridiculous Let's Enhance supercut that all just became realistic: [VIDEO] (Created by the super talented duncanrobson)
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Video by Duncan Robson, played through YouTube.

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