This is promising, and if done right, could spell the end of compression artifacts that we commonly see with MPEG codecs.
Unfortunately, if they choose to be proprietary with the tech, that’s not good news, and AV1 would still be superior in terms of open standards. (and remember, AV1 encode/decode performance is constantly improving) These guys would be the new MPEG-LA in that case.
Edit: Just learned AV1 has snippets of neural network code in it, which if done right, would mark this potentially proprietary solution kinda worthless:
Is there a video of it in action? Or the results. Sorry have not check links yet, I will later.
I aka because I actually don’t like the still of WaveOne compared to the other two. They are terrible for sure but it looks like the WaveOne smooths everything, especially the water. I wonder if the video looks odd, like the water is fake because of the extreme smoothing when in really life water can go from still to choppy and have hard edges on ripples.
It looks very painted compared to the others where I am used to the noise and can decipher that to a proper image in my head.
Edit just checked… Only stils. Meh, I will wait for more.
And this is the image the examples were taken from. Hmmm focusing on tiny details in a much larger picture. I would definitely need to see it in motion.
