It’s amazing what AI can do nowadays … the photorealism is uncanny. Of course you’ll need a GeForce RTX 30-series graphics card for this 😀
Taken from Engadget … You may have seen Grand Theft Auto V realism mods before, but probably not as effective as this. Kotakureports that researchers Stephan Richter, Hassan Abu AlHaija and Vladlen Koltun have developed a technique that adds an uncanny level of photorealism to the game using machine learning. The method not only adopts more natural colors, but improves reflections, tweaks road texture smoothness and otherwise adds subtleties to GTA V‘s normally hyper-vivid look.
The visual upgrade required a new approach to AI enhancement. While the concept of using real-world footage to guide the algorithms isn’t new, the researchers found that existing methods either produced artifacts (and were frequently “unstable”) or were too slow to be usable. There was often a wide gap between the footage used to train the AI and the in-game scenes. The new method grabs similar-looking patches to provide better reference points for enhancement, such as similar-looking cars and people, while keeping the frame rates relatively high.
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