After discussing where Pixop came from and how it works, I wanted to understand why it exists. Why does a team of developers in Denmark spend years building filters that make video look better? And what’s next? So I asked Jon.

In Part 1, we followed Jon Frydensbjerg from his early Amiga days to his current work as Pixop’s co-founder and CTO. Now let’s dig into what Pixop actually does, and how its AI-powered filters work.

For the truly non-geek: This piece is aimed at non-technical audiences, too, and I’m told not everyone knows what a “sprite” is. It could be (1) a small magical creature, (2) a tiny, delicate person, (3) a two-dimensional image in computer graphics, (4) a large electrical discharge above thunderstorms, or (5) a lime-flavoured soft drink. Jon usually talks about option 3, but honestly, he brings a bit of all five. Oh, and “real-time” means that computers can do their magic on a video stream without having to delay or slow it (ie, it takes less than an hour to upscale an hour of video – In live scenarios, the magic happens in milliseconds.)