@ zee944

The problem is that for this methodology no sharpening has been applied. In fact in the first iterations no denoising was applied. So, yes the detail enhancement is due to super resolution. You don't need to compare a Tesla to a Ferrari to know you have a supercar. Your argument is like arguing the Tesla's performance is most likely due to the number of cylinders (update for those that don't know this: Tesla produces electric supercars). If course it is interesting to compare them, but it is in no way misleading to show a method is able to retrieve details that are not visible in the original or a simple upscale. The fact that another method may be able to also retrieve these details doesn't take away from this fact.

Now if you want to argue that super resolution has very little to offer, and that it is mostly due to sharpening and denoising, I suggest you write a scientific paper that proofs the last 20 years of scientific research is wrong. It's been scientifically proven time and time again that super resolution can retrieve details better than most other methods.

As I've stated I'm very interested in comparing super resolution to Team Blu's upscale. Maybe their upscale is better, maybe not. However, if you argue you can reproduce my results with sharpening and denoising, you should be able to back that up with a direct comparison. Otherwise your words simply ring hollow.

Edit:

You argue my comparison in my last post to the Avisynth Spline64Resize is unfair, but you forgot to mention that I also compared it to the true HD frame. This to me seems like the fairest comparison of all.