On: Exploiting Aliasing for Manga Restoration

[cleansingfire]

While the aliased sample is sharper, I experience an unpleasant artifact in that version based on the halftone dots lining up with pixels, with an effect like grid illusion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_illusion?wprov=sfti1The blurry character of the original is also unpleasant, but the aliased version is hard for me to look at. I'm interested to know if anyone else experiences this.

[xwdv → cleansingfire]

I agree, it was hard for me to tell exactly what was the restored version as both images had unpleasant flaws.

[lupire → cleansingfire]

It's not even an illusion; it looks bad because they have a terrible tile for the dithering. Should be easy to fix in a postprocessing step after the AI.