luigio

While not tailored for pixel art, I find that waifu2x still produces pretty good results with it. In your example, it seems the problem is simply related to lack of...

Yes, I selected artwork style and highest noise reduction every time. It's not perfect, as you can see some details are lost (like the leftmost vertical line in each leg),...

It's not quite ideal, but I'm pretty sure it's close enough. At the very least, it will always detect rigged edges and make them smooth, which is the main point....

Here's an example of what I mean. I'll use this picture as a starting point:  First I reduce color without dithering. I think anything over 8 colors will usually...

This is almost exactly what I meant: https://imgur.com/gallery/YDbBZ

I'm kind of disappointed that nobody has trained a neural net for pixel art upscaling yet. No reason why it shouldn't work, and it would be very useful for indie...

> I think the problem is because nobody provide proper training materials yet. As I mentioned before, input-output pairs for training are very easy to create from any image database....

Thanks, looking good! (Although the demo is quite buggy.)

This is the result I got from it: 

We should allow the possibility of Leela becoming strong without lookahead. I think history planes are necessary for that, as they prevent Leela accidentally incurring in repetitions in winning positions....