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Blade Runner Enhance Scene

Colton Casados-MedveCited 4× on HN, 2013-2025
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315K views · 15 years ago · other · evergreen

The Blade Runner scene in which Deckard uses a voice-controlled machine to enhance a photograph, zooming into hidden details.

Used as the canonical reference for the 'enhance' trope whenever image upscaling or recognition comes up.

Film & TV clipsComputer vision, speech & NLP#bladerunner#enhance#imageenhancement#sci-fifilm

4 comments from Hacker News

@carabiner2025 · in “SHARP, an approach to photorealistic view synthesis from a single image”

Black Mirror episode portraying what this could do: link . If Apple ran SHARP on this photo and compared it to the show, that would be incredible. Or if you prefer Blade Runner: ▶ this video

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@dmix2015 · in “Identifiable Images of Bystanders Extracted from Corneal Reflections (2013)”

Yes in the 3 minute scene there were multiple indications from the picture to indicate: Chinatown (food/texts), the girls outfit (being a dancer), and an identifying tattoo. Which would point to only a few dance clubs in the city. It was also a connection to the artificial snake scale being found in the bath tub that happened to be rare and only created by a few possible engineers. Engineers who work on robotics. One Chinatown engineer happened to be employed by the people he was looking for, who were robots in need of an engineer... Not a far fetched connection by Hollywood's standards. ▶ this video

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@pesenti2014 · in “Depixelizing Pixel Art”

I can't believe you are linking to CSI instead of Blade Runner, the grand daddy of all enhance scenes ▶ this video makes me feel old...

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@anigbrowl2013 · in “Facial Recognition Failed in Boston Bombing”

"zoom in, enhance" feature much mocked about on TV crime shows Actually, those jokes refer to a scene in Blade Runner : ▶ this video

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