![]() ![]() DAIN, on the other hand, imagines and inserts frames between the keyframes of an existing video clip. Effectively, Topaz taught an AI to accurately sharpen and clarify images even after they've been enlarged by as much as 600 percent. Gigapixel AI uses a proprietary interpolation algorithm which "analyzes the image and recognizes details and structures and 'completes' the image" according to Topaz Labs' website. Shiryaev leveraged a pair of publically available enhancement programs, DAIN and Topaz Labs' Gigapixel AI, to transform the original footage into a 4K 60FPS clip. Thankfully those panicky cinephile pioneers never saw the AI-enhanced upscaled version released by Denis Shiryaev, or they would have absolutely flipped their lids. A wild thought, given the blurry, low-resolution quality of the original film. When the 50-second silent short film L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat premiered in 1896, some theatergoers reportedly ran for safety at the sight of a projected approaching train, thinking that a real one would burst through the screen at any moment, Looney Tunes-style. ![]()
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