Blade Runner Enhance Scene

Colton Casados-Medve · 315.6K views · 2011-10-09 · 2:41

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Overview

The Blade Runner scene in which Deckard uses a voice-controlled machine to enhance a photograph, zooming into hidden details.

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Used as the canonical reference for the 'enhance' trope whenever image upscaling or recognition comes up.

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Film & TV clips Computer vision, speech & NLP

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carabiner · 2025-12 · Joke / meme
Black Mirror episode portraying what this could do: [LINK] . If Apple ran SHARP on this photo and compared it to the show, that would be incredible. Or if you prefer Blade Runner: [VIDEO]
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dmix · 2015-01 · Reference
Yes in the 3 minute scene there were multiple indications from the picture to indicate: Chinatown (food/texts), the girls outfit (being a dancer), and an identifying tattoo. Which would point to only a few dance clubs in the city. It was also a connection to the artificial snake scale being found in the bath tub that happened to be rare and only created by a few possible engineers. Engineers who work on robotics. One Chinatown engineer happened to be employed by the people he was looking for, who were robots in need of an engineer... Not a far fetched connection by Hollywood's standards. [VIDEO]
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pesenti · 2014-02 · Joke / meme
I can't believe you are linking to CSI instead of Blade Runner, the grand daddy of all enhance scenes [VIDEO] makes me feel old...
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