deepixel emulator

This is a deep learning approach to depixelizing images, with a goal to fully integrate it into an emulator to provide real-time HD gameplay.

Approach

The idea is to resize high definition images from side-scrolling video games to the original Gameboy Color resolution (160,144) to use as a training set. The resized HD image will serve as the input to the network, and the output will be compared with the original unsized image.

Original image taken from Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze Wii U

Resized Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze

Original image taken from Donkey Kong Country Gameboy Color