BasicSR VS ESRGAN

I think you might be interested in https://github.com/XPixelGroup/BasicSR

It's not the same but GFPGan works quite well, you might want to check out BasicSR. The Remini mobile app is impressive too.

!pip install git+https://github.com/xinntao/BasicSR.git

So, I was using a pretty high-end machine with an AMD RX 6900 XT GPU, ready to do some GPU accelerated computing. I had booted into Windows 10. I followed a guide for training on my own dataset. PyTorch was the name of the framework that served as the foundation for [BasicSR[(https://github.com/xinntao/BasicSR), which in turn provided the tools I needed.

This seems to be based on ESRGAN which is supposed to be higher quality than waifu2x.

I downloaded https://github.com/xinntao/ESRGAN , I run it using command line, no gui.

Nerd info: Uses 3 different algorithms together: https://github.com/CompVis/stable-diffusion For generating source https://github.com/TencentARC/GFPGAN For repairing faces, mouths, eyes https://github.com/xinntao/ESRGAN For upscaling Paint.Net for manual retouching, cleanup and adjustments.

Code for https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.00219 found: https://github.com/xinntao/ESRGAN

Even if it's not a simple black and white image, you can get damn impressive results when upscaling images with GAN-based algorithms, like ESRGAN, together with a suitable pretrained model. Both are free of charge. The software can be tricky to use compared to Photoshop, though.

I use ESRGAN: https://github.com/xinntao/ESRGAN

There are two Generator architectures that are in the code, however these are actually just sitting there unused, likely from work that did not pan out because if you look at their inference code it's not used at all. Instead they directly import the plain old vanilla RRDB architecture from BasicSR yet again another Xinntao repository. Seeing the theme here.