Depixel Algorithms

I was browsing the interwebs and I found this research that was done to depixel pixel art

pixel before

after

here is the links
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/kopf/pixelart/

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/kopf/pixelart/supplementary/multi_comparison.html

full PDF

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/kopf/pixelart/paper/pixel.pdf

 

I found it very interesting, I'm pretty sure its open source too, though it appears it doesn't work well with anti-aliased inputs, so the more pixelated(jaged) it is the better it will work

lol even still had this up, thank god for stumbleupon

I'm really a oddball when it comes to the internet and haven't actually used things like reddit or stumbleupon, I found this while researching random stuff on the internet lol

 

Neat. I suppose it has to make a few guesses. I'm going to have a look through that PDF. Thanks Giga.