Published on 15 May, 2021
Yesterday saw the release of Mass Effect: Legendary Edition, a remaster which used AI to upscale many of the original game s textures so they look better at 4K.
That s nothing compared to what Intel are working on, however. In a video called Enhancing Photorealism Enhancement, embedded below, Intel show Grand Theft Auto 5 after it has been run through a neural net to make the streets of Los Santos look more photorealistic. It works.
You can see the work of researchers Stephan R. Richter, Hassan Abu AlHaija, and Vladlen Koltun below:
In layman s terms, the process looks at frames of Grand Theft Auto, breaks the scene down into different elements, and then matches them with photos of a real city. It can then use parts of those photos to modify the images from the game.
GTA V Looks Almost Photorealistic Thanks To Machine Learning
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Grand Theft Auto V and through the power of magic make it look so damn
real.
This is a project by Stephan R. Richter, Hassan Abu AlHaija and Vladlen Koltun at Cornell University, culminating in a paper called
Enhancing Photorealism Enhancement. Both the paper and the accompanying video get pretty heavy on technical details, so here’s the basic summary of what they’re doing:
We present an approach to enhancing the realism of synthetic images. The images are enhanced by a convolutional network that leverages intermediate representations produced by conventional rendering pipelines. The network is trained via a novel adversarial objective, which provides strong supervision at multiple perceptual levels. We analyse scene layout distributions in commonly used datasets and find that they differ in important ways. We hypothesize that this is one of the causes of strong artifacts that can be
(Pocket-lint) - GTA V has been modded a few times over the years since it launched, but even the best mods don t make it look as realistic as the work Intel has done with machine learning.
Through a machine learning project that s being carried out by a team at Intel Labs, the game has been visually overhauled in truly impressive ways.
This project, known as Enhancing Photorealism Enhancement has taken scenes from Grand Theft Auto and transformed the visuals to make them more realistic and the results are staggering.
As you ll see from the clips and images, the work by Stephan R. Richter, Hassan Abu Alhaija and Vladlen Kolten has overhauled the visuals with more realistic washed-out lighting, convincing real-world styled reflections and much more besides.
Researchers at Intel labs have been looking at enhancing the realism of synthetic images. Stephan R. Richter, Hassan Abu Alhaija, and Vladlen Kolten recently published a research paper and accompanying demo video showing a new ML-based technique in action - changing the great but obviously synthetic graphics in GTA V to a much more realistic and photoreal experience.
The new ML rendering method is described as enhancing the in-game graphics by leveraging a convolutional network that has been trained on the Cityscapes dataset . The results are clearly different and appealing in a real-world way. However, it is explained that the Cityscapes dataset isn t derived from driving around Southern California, but mostly from driving around cities in Germany with an automotive grade camera. One unintended side effect of using the German data is that the landscapes in San Andreas become greener, and the roads smoother and less pot-holed. Other effects like the shading and lighting of cars a