Neat Image VS waifu2x

Neat Image

Neat Image reduces high ISO noise, grain, artifacts in images from digital cameras, flatbed and slide scanners. It is a tool for professional photographers and digital image processing enthusiasts.

waifu2x

Online/Offline tool to upscale images

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2021-09-14

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2023-10-23

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Category Popularity

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waifu2x

Video

19 19%

Video

81% 81

Video Enhancer

28 28%

Video Enhancer

72% 72

Photos & Graphics

0 0%

Photos & Graphics

100% 100

Photo Enhancer

100 100%

Photo Enhancer

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, waifu2x seems to be a lot more popular than Neat Image. While we know about 24 links to waifu2x, we've tracked only 1 mention of Neat Image. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Neat Image mentions (1)

What's the best method to get the best result for de-embossing a photo like this?
Neat Image does a good job with this image. You create a noise profile by manually sampling areas of the image with uniform noise and use that to build a noise profile. Here's the image with noise reduction applied: Google drive. Source: almost 2 years ago

waifu2x mentions (24)

Dengeki PlayStation Oct. 1995 - Prototype Guilty Gear: The Missing Link article (English translation link & additional info in comments)
In an effort to restore them as much as I could, I used a combination of waifu2x ("Single-Image Super-Resolution for Anime-Style Art using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks"), Clip Studio Paint resize/cleanup tools, and manual cleanup done by hand. Unfortunately, the red text on the title page was a lost cause. If anyone can decipher solid red rectangles please contact me lol. Source: 12 months ago
Outfit 5 Wins! Thanks for playing, everyone! (P.S. I’m doing Apple next)
Maybe this would help. There's also an app version of it. Source: about 1 year ago
Wallpaper background span for dual monitors (landscape and portrait)
I would recommend putting it through an upscaler beforehand, it seems a bit small. Source: over 1 year ago
Anyone got a higher quality version of this pic?
Http://waifu2x.udp.jp/index.html found this image upscaler from https://www.reddit.com/r/FireEmblemHeroes/comments/a51f0k/i_turned_yusuke_kozakis_artwork_into_a_high/?st=JPIZKYIB&sh=f12f76fe a while ago, perhaps that would be the closest if IS doesn't release anything. Source: over 1 year ago
Honda celebrates Max Verstappen's championship win in today's Japanese newspaper The Nikkei: "Congratulations, Max"
You can make it bigger for print by using by using an Japanese AI image enlarging tool. Source: over 1 year ago