Following the AI Tagging test, Nero Score is once again focusing its benchmarking tool on real-world AVC decoding and encoding tests. This is a test unit for measuring the performance of system codecs running AVC software and hardware decoding & encoding separately.
Compared with previous video compression standards, AVC achieves effective compression while minimizing distortion caused by the compression process. Today, AVC has become a relatively main codec for users in video playback, transcoding, and compression.
Most benchmarking of codecs on the market is often done using a tool that comes with the codec, which does not truly reflect the performance, for example, your movie playback using the system’s Movies & TV application, and it is hard to relate these benchmark results under specific conditions with real-world performance.
Nero Score’s ‘AVC Decoding and Encoding Test’ is a unit that measures codec performance using only the system’s own codecs, which is a more realistic reflection of your system’s performance without running third-party applications.
Nero Score AVC decoding and encoding test decodes and encodes a dedicated Ultra HD 4K video clip with the system’s own codecs to measure the processing power of your system’s CPU and GPU for AVC.
CPU/GPU AVC benchmarks and measures how many video frames per second can be processed with your system’s codec on the given CPU/GPU. The outcome of this test will let you compare how different CPUs/GPUs score in this domain. And you also can compare the CPU behaviors in AVC solution and AI inference solution.
The test produces a benchmark score for AVC decoding and transcoding as a measure of performance. As with the AI Tagging test, higher scores mean better performance. Here are some scores for reference:
Whether you’re a blogger or designer, an online store owner, or a student, poor photo quality can be a major obstacle when it comes to photo printing and sharing.
These problems are now things of the past – with Nero’s cutting-edge deep learning technology, you can now enlarge your photos by enhancing their details and increasing their resolution.
What is Nero AI Image Upscaler (Lens)?
Nero AI Image Upscaler (Lens) is an AI-powered tool that can enlarge image size and increase resolution with enhanced quality.
By reducing noise and sharpening the details, AI Image Upscaler (Lens) lets works best on small images and photos.
How does Nero AI Image Upscaler (Lens) work?
Nero AI Image Upscaler (Lens) uses state-of-the-art image super-resolution technology based on deep convolutional neural networks.
Our neural network is trained on an immense dataset of training photos. In detail, we used millions of low-resolution and high-resolution image pairs to train the software on upscaling images and to learn typical features of physical objects such as the bricks of walls, hair and skin.
After the network recognizes those features on the images, it will enhance those details based on its general knowledge of the world.
What is traditional image upscaling?
Before AI-based image upscaling technology, it was virtually impossible to increase photo or image size without losing quality.
The best option, called Bicubic Interpolation – made your image unsharp and blurry.
Left: Original 4x | Right: 4x by Nero AI
Nero AI Upscaling
Bicubic
What pictures work best with Nero AI Image Upscaler (Lens)?
The system works best with unprocessed images that were not previously upscaled or pixelated by any other software tool.
Our main focus currently is upscaling physical content with sharp corners like digital illustrations, images with sharp borders, and contrasting textures (such as watches).
For high-quality images such as 4K wallpapers, the result will be less obvious after processing.
Do you remove JPEG compression artifacts?
Yes, we automatically remove JPEG noise (also known as compression artifacts), if we detect an image with a .jpg or .jpeg extension.
If for any reason you want to upscale your image without removing noise, you can input your image as a png-file.
Is there a size limit for the images I want to upscale?
For web and mobile versions, the source image should be smaller than 16 megapixels (e.g. 4000*4000 pixels in a 1:1 aspect ratio).
For the desktop version, the source image should be smaller than 16.78 megapixels.
However, the processing speed depends on your desktop’s and GPU’s limitations.
Processing a high-resolution image will take up more time. In addition, the result may be less obvious.
Whether you’re a blogger or designer, an online store owner, or a student, poor photo quality can be a major obstacle when it comes to photo printing and sharing.
These problems are now things of the past – with Nero’s cutting-edge deep learning technology, you can now enlarge your photos by enhancing their details and increasing their resolution.
What is Nero AI Image Upscaler (Lens)?
Nero AI Image Upscaler (Lens) is an AI-powered tool that can enlarge image size and increase resolution with enhanced quality.
By reducing noise and sharpening the details, AI Image Upscaler (Lens) lets works best on small images and photos.
How does Nero AI Image Upscaler (Lens) work?
Nero AI Image Upscaler (Lens) uses state-of-the-art image super-resolution technology based on deep convolutional neural networks.
Our neural network is trained on an immense dataset of training photos. In detail, we used millions of low-resolution and high-resolution image pairs to train the software on upscaling images and to learn typical features of physical objects such as the bricks of walls, hair and skin.
After the network recognizes those features on the images, it will enhance those details based on its general knowledge of the world.
What is traditional image upscaling?
Before AI-based image upscaling technology, it was virtually impossible to increase photo or image size without losing quality.
The best option, called Bicubic Interpolation – made your image unsharp and blurry.
Left: Original 4x | Right: 4x by Nero AI
Nero AI Upscaling
Bicubic
What pictures work best with Nero AI Image Upscaler (Lens)?
The system works best with unprocessed images that were not previously upscaled or pixelated by any other software tool.
Our main focus currently is upscaling physical content with sharp corners like digital illustrations, images with sharp borders, and contrasting textures (such as watches).
For images with small human faces or text, the result will be less obvious after processing.
Do you remove JPEG compression artifacts?
Yes, we automatically remove JPEG noise (also known as compression artifacts), if we detect an image with a .jpg or .jpeg extension.
If for any reason you want to upscale your image without removing noise, you can input your image as a png-file.
Is there a size limit for the images I want to upscale?
Users of the online version can use images with 3.75 megapixels (e.g. 2560*1440 pixels in 16:9).
Users of the mobile version which is called “Nero Lens” can use images with 4032*2268 pixels in size.
For the desktop version, the source image should be smaller than 16.78 megapixels.
However, the processing speed depends on your desktop’s or mobile’s CPU and GPU limitations.
Processing a high-resolution image will take up more time. In addition, the result may be less obvious when upscaling a high-resolution image.
We always improve our product based on your feedback and suggestions on a ongoing basis.
Nero Start
⢠The new user interface provides you with dynamic and customized tabs such as âRecently usedâ and âFavoriteâ pages
⢠See the latest released apps and most popular apps from users all over the world
⢠Dedicated âUpdatesâ tabs keep you focus on the apps you have installed
⢠Provides more than 200 solutions for mobile and PC with easier and faster accessibility and a search bar on the start page
⢠A brand new category âExperience AIâ provides easy access to apps that are powered by AIÂ
1001 TVs (PC)
⢠1001 TVs â mirror screen from multi-phones to your Windows PC and mirror your Windows desktop to TV
Nero AI Image Upscaler
⢠Nero AI Image Upscaler â use artificial intelligence to increase image resolution with enhanced sharpness and detailÂ
Nero Score
⢠Nero Score â the real-world PC benchmark. Nero Score measures the multi-core performance of your processor (CPU) and pushes your graphics card (GPU) to its maximum limit with real-world multimedia use casesÂ
Nero AI Photo Tagger
⢠Upgraded AI detection optimizes performance to take full advantage of high-end CPUs
⢠Better structured AI tag list for future extension
Nero Video
⢠Support importing and editing of 8K video footageÂ
⢠Nero Video supports Nero AI upscaling for video during export. Nero AI video upscaling predicts high-resolution video with AI models and produces incredibly sharp and enhanced details such as sharper edges, more realistic hair, and landscapes with amazing clarity.Â
⢠Now it’s easier to create slide shows after your vacation – because in Nero Video’s media library, you can use the media information already applied in other applications (e.g. Nero MediaHome, Nero AI Photo Tagger) to find the photos you want more easilyÂ
Nero Recode
⢠Support importing and playback 8K video footage
⢠Nero Recode supports Nero AI upscaling for video during conversionÂ
Nero MediaHome
⢠Support for 8K video playback
⢠Support Nero AI upscaling in real-time video playback – enjoy high definition quality with standard definition sources
Nero BackItUp
⢠Now supports a new backup option: automatically start backup when an external USB drive is attachedÂ
â˘Â Nero BackItUp allows now encryption independent from compressionÂ
⢠Now Nero BackItUp supports browsing and relocating backup files if you move them to a new location
Nero Burning ROM & Nero Express
⢠Now you can create Raspberry Pi OS on your USB stick or SD card in Nero Burning ROMÂ
⢠Nero Burning ROM & Nero Express support editing CD-text in multiple languages
Nero USBxCOPY
⢠Now you can write ISO images (e.g. operating system images) to multiple USB drives with one click
⢠Improved user interface and better usabilityÂ
We always improve our product based on your feedback and suggestions on a ongoing basis.
Nero Start
The new user interface provides you with dynamic and customized tabs such as âRecently usedâ and âFavoriteâ pages
See the latest released apps and most popular apps from users all over the world
Dedicated âUpdatesâ tabs keep you focus on the apps you have installed
Provides more than 200 solutions for mobile and PC with easier and faster accessibility and a search bar on the start page
A brand new category âExperience AIâ provides easy access to apps that are powered by AI
1001 TVs (PC)
1001 TVs â mirror screen from multi-phones to your Windows PC and mirror your Windows desktop to TV
Nero AI Image Upscaler
Nero AI Image Upscaler â use artificial intelligence to increase image resolution with enhanced sharpness and detailÂ
Nero Score
Nero Score â the real-world PC benchmark. Nero Score measures the multi-core performance of your processor (CPU) and pushes your graphics card (GPU) to its maximum limit with real-world multimedia use cases
Nero AI Photo Tagger
Upgraded AI detection optimizes performance to take full advantage of high-end CPUs
Better structured AI tag list for future extension
Nero Video
Support importing and editing of 8K video footageÂ
Nero Video supports Nero AI upscaling for video during export. Nero AI video upscaling predicts high-resolution video with AI models and produces incredibly sharp and enhanced details such as sharper edges, more realistic hair, and landscapes with amazing clarity.Â
Now it’s easier to create slide shows after your vacation – because in Nero Video’s media library, you can use the media information already applied in other applications (e.g. Nero MediaHome, Nero AI Photo Tagger) to find the photos you want more easilyÂ
Nero Recode
Support importing and playback 8K video footage
Nero Recode supports Nero AI upscaling for video during conversionÂ
Nero MediaHome
Support for 8K video playback
Support Nero AI upscaling in real-time video playback – enjoy high definition quality with standard definition sources
Nero BackItUp
Now supports a new backup option: automatically start backup when an external USB drive is attachedÂ
Nero BackItUp allows now encryption independent from compressionÂ
Now Nero BackItUp supports browsing and relocating backup files if you move them to a new location
Nero Burning ROM & Nero Express
Now you can create Raspberry Pi OS on your USB stick or SD card in Nero Burning ROMÂ
Nero USBxCOPY
[Now you can write ISO images (e.g. operating system images) to multiple USB drives with one click
