Machine Learning: WinML/DirectML, CoreML & all things ML

Unity's done a great job integrating ML into their product so far and it makes sense for them to have a layer that can provide ML functionality without any platform specific frameworks. That said, the DirectX platform does have some unique hardware acceleration support in DirectML. At this year's GDC we announced the public release of the DirectML API and Unity announced support for DirectML, leveraging it where they can for increased performance:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/gaming-with-windows-ml/
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/directml-at-gdc-2019/

Thanks,
Max McMullen
Development Manager
Compute, Graphics, & AI
Microsoft

 

nice! Unity is getting pretty awesome. What a fantastic feature for developers.

 

Is it too much to ask for some freeware where I can just input a batch of images/textures/etc., select a SuperScale amount, and presto-output-folder?

Kind of curious to see if MS can have that as an option when taking screenshots on Xbox or Win10, for example. It'd be like having Ansel (so hot right now) without needing to inject it or have developer intervention (only select games).

I'd love to see an experiment for 90s 2D/sprite games. Is performance there for real-time superscaling where older-school games are in the 320x200-800x600 range I guess they'd have to be on D3D first... and maybe there'd be crazy artefacting in motion around moving objects (e.g. isometric games). :s zoidblerg.

 

not quite just a freeware with some customizations
I suspect someone can make the tool like that. what are you looking to do?

 

well considering it took over a minute on a single 256x256 sized texture on my admittedly inboard graphics I say having this running at good framerates is a long way off.
Also it doesnt handle Jpg artifacts well, just makes them worse, so prolly not the best for photos, but old CGI yes could be good

 

I think a more workable way of doing this would be to rip the game's source art, superscale that up, and inject the higher res art into the game. Some emulators allow such fan-made texture-patch injection.