[Project] I used a new ML algo called "AnimeSR" to restore the Cowboy Bebop movie and up rez it to full 4K. Here's a link to the end result - honestly think it looks amazing! (Video and Model link in post)

Submitted by VR_Angel t3_10vj1az in MachineLearning

It took me about 46 hours to run this on my 3080 at home. The original files was from the Blu-ray release that was unfortunately pretty poorly done in my opinion. This version really gives it new life I think.

Here's a link to the video result to see for yourself:

https://vimeo.com/796411232

And a link to the model I used!

https://github.com/TencentARC/AnimeSR

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AnthemReign t1_j7i1dw6 wrote

I haven't watched the original Cowboy Bebop movie or anime, but this seems really cool, and it makes me really wanna see Trigun and Case Closed/Detective Conan rezed up xD

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VR_Angel OP t1_j7i25or wrote

I was actually thinking about doing an episode of trigun myself! I did one for an episode of dragon ball as well. https://www.reddit.com/r/dbz/comments/10t04m5/used_an_ai_to_restore_an_old_sd_copy_of_an/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

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AnthemReign t1_j7i3bp2 wrote

I'd donate 5 bucks for your (what I assume are) pricy electric bills for a Trigun episode lmfao

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VR_Angel OP t1_j7i4q2y wrote

What episode do you want?

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AnthemReign t1_j7i5ex9 wrote

Why not the first one?
I guess if you're wanting to show off this tech, you'd want an episode with a lot of effects or one that needs the most improvement rez wise?

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VR_Angel OP t1_j7i66ix wrote

I’ll thumb through my collection and see. They all are kinda aged at this point. Can run it tonight

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wideEyedPupil t1_j83ywpd wrote

would like to see a sample of the source movie file for res and for artifacts of compression process. it looks impressive anyhow.

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perspectiveiskey t1_j7kd6ee wrote

This is why AI was created. I think we can call it now.

Jokes aside, thank you for doing this. It looks fantastic.

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