A ferocious person who up-converts 'Star Trek' that full HD conversion is difficult to full HD & 4K with AI of his own works



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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (DS9) ' is the third TV drama of the popular SF series ' Star Trek ' and was broadcast in Japan from 1996 to 2002. Although the DS9 has been released with a DVD version that is an SD image quality of 480p , the BD version remastered with full HD image quality of 1080p has not been released at the time of article creation, due to various circumstances. The fan which did full HD up conversion appeared by using machine learning for such DS9.

Remastering Star Trek: Deep Space Nine With Machine Learning
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Despite the BD version of the first series ' Space Daisakusen ' and the second series ' New Star Trek ', the BD version of the third DS9 has not been released. The reason is clarified in an interview with TrekNews.Net, which sends information related to Star Trek, to DVD producer Robert Meyer Burnett.


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According to Burnett, it takes time and money to remaster DS9 to full HD. Although the DS9 was shot on 20 megapixel 35mm film , it was shot on film because North American and Asian TVs adopted the NTSC standard, which has a resolution of 640 pixels x 480 scan lines, which is much smaller than 35mm film. Had to be downconverted for television broadcasts. New Star Trek, DS9, and the fourth drama ' Star Trek: Voyager (VGR) ', instead of editing the filmed film and then down-converting it for television broadcasting, it broadcasts all filmed films in advance. It seems that I did an edit after down converting for.

The big problem is CG synthesis processing that has been done since the 1980s. According to Burnett, CG has come to be used in TV drama series since the new Star Trek, especially in DS9 and VGR. Since CG composition processing is performed on 480p movies for television broadcasting, it is necessary to 're-edit 35 mm film and perform the same CG composition processing' to issue a full HD remaster of DS9 and VGR. If you do, it will cost you too much. According to Burnett, the complete original film of the new Star Trek has already been lost.


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From the interview with Mr. Burnett, it seems that the appearance of the higher-quality DS9 seems to be impossible, but we are creating a mod that upconverts the background pre-rendered in the game ' Final Fantasy VII ' to HD quality. We thought that 'pseudo remastering' could be performed by upconverting SD image quality DS9 to full HD or 4K using 'AI Gigapixel' developed by CaptRobau for MOD.

You can see the movie of the SD quality movie (left) and the movie up-converted to full HD (right) from the following movies.

DS9 Remastered With Machine Learning-Comparison Video (480p to 1080p)-YouTube


The image below is a cut of the DVD version of DS9. Click the thumbnail image to display the original image.



I like this when I up-convert this to 1080p with AI Gigapixel.



The scene holding the ball is ...



I feel like this when I up-convert. If the thumbnails are the same size, the difference between them may not be clear at first glance, but the image quality will not be degraded even if the SD size still image is enlarged to full HD size as it is.



CaptRobau says he is satisfied with the result, 'the upconversion to full HD by AI is going well.' In addition, CaptRobau has also released a movie in which the beginning of the DS9 has been upconverted to 4K. However, because CaptRobau himself does not have a 4K monitor, he does not know how upconversion has been successful.

Remastered DS9 Intro 4K-Machine Learning Upscaling-YouTube


CaptRobau, a big fan of Star Trek, wanted to use this technology to upconvert all DS9s to full HD, but of course not because they do not have the DS9 rights. Therefore, although this trial is only an experiment, if CBS with rights is considering full HD remastering of DS9, this machine learning and neural network will be enough help, CaptRobau says The

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