Output is Better as a Blend Overlay over the Original

[pftq]

It might be the resolution I'm testing on (960x960) but the video output comes out looking like something oversharpened. What ends up more useful and looking a lot better is then taking that output and making it 15% opacity on top of the original video. It's similar to Photoshop where you'd create a details layer to blend on top of the base layer.

[FurkanGozukara]

so what you are doing is you are merging output with original but original has 15% opacity? can you elaborate more?

[pftq]

No the STAR output is made 15% opacity on top of the original video.

[pftq]

I did more testing on this and it looks like the oversharpening look mainly happens <1920 resolution. Once the resolution is at least 1920 or so, it looks really good that you only need to blend it maybe 50%. So I'm guessing this was mainly tested at around 4k where the issue is not there as much.

[FurkanGozukara]

@pftq you mean lets say upscaling 480p into 1920p right?

can you post example video here if possible?

[scar217]

Hello, the original video and the video output by the STAR model have different resolutions. How can we cover them? Do we need to upsample the original video first?