ESRGAN
Anime4K
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Python | Jupyter Notebook | |
Apache License 2.0 | MIT License |
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ESRGAN
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Upscayl - Free and Open Source AI Image Upscaler for Linux, Mac and Windows
This seems to be based on ESRGAN which is supposed to be higher quality than waifu2x.
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How can I change the parameters of ESRGAN
I downloaded https://github.com/xinntao/ESRGAN , I run it using command line, no gui.
- Finetuning a x2 Real-ESRGAN model?
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The Golden Gator re-imagined by AI (Read comment before watching on stream)
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.
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[D] Has anyone tried GAN "tricks" on VAEs?
Code for https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.00219 found: https://github.com/xinntao/ESRGAN
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How to convert a low resolution, pixelated image into a high resolution picture 💫
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.
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Ambriel Motion Graphics Experiment
I use ESRGAN: https://github.com/xinntao/ESRGAN
- Some architectural stuff I’ve been working on.
- children playing in the rain at night illuminated by lanterns, reflective puddles, fine detail, by Leonid Afremov
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Paper: "A-ESRGAN: Training Real-World Blind Super-Resolution with Attention U-Net Discriminators", Wei et al 2021. "Main idea: Introduce attention U-net into the field of blind real world image super resolution. We aims to provide a super resolution method with sharper result and less distortion."
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.
Anime4K
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AI Made These Movies Sharper. Critics Say It Ruined Them.
I watch AI enhanced movies and/or shows every day when I use Anime4K, a real-time ML upscaler for anime https://github.com/bloc97/Anime4K
If you give shit-tier blurry DVD messes, it turns them into nicer blurry messes.
If you give it the usual bitrate starved streaming quality show, it looks almost as nice as a blueray.
If you give it a blueray... It basically comes out looking exactly the same. I'll usually still add its "darken lines" filter since I'm a fan of strong linework.
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IPTV Anti-Piracy Threats May Increase Male Motivation to Pirate by 30%
> Can you explain what mpv offers over vlc ?
People have complained about VLC's decoding quality in the past (no specific source but lots of google results). I'm sure there's valid bugs that have been patched over and some still there, but I'd take it with a grain of salt since VLC is super popular and therefore more noise when it drops the ball.
That said, there's a few MPV-only features I absolutely love. One is that you can display multiple subtitles at once (for learning foreign languages) and another is that you can drop in upscaling / sharpening filters like [1].
[1] https://github.com/bloc97/Anime4K
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AI-Powered Nvidia RTX Video HDR Transforms Standard Video into HDR Video
If you want to avoid manual processing, Anime4K runs in real time as a GLSL shader you can load into MPV (or Plex or something called IINA according to the readme) and still gives great results.
https://github.com/bloc97/Anime4K
- What software to use for upscaling anime edits
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Load shader in Android MPV?
I came up with some shaders (here) that I want to load on the Android MPV. I copied the shaders in my Android phone. According to what I found, I edited the mpv.conf with the locations of the shaders as below:
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They Bypass YouTube Video Download Throttling
Players like VLC do much better and let you make your own arbitrary adjustments via GLSL :)
In particular, I like the anime4k shader pack, which is ML-based but runs in real time in mpv (and I think VLC as well). While it is tuned for anime (as is obvious from the name), it has decent denoise and deblur which often make YT content more watchable and a restore step that does a really good job with compression artifacts but is a bit too tuned for anime so may not always work, or even make things worse. See https://github.com/bloc97/Anime4K/releases
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Pls help me a find an anime website
I know of https://github.com/bloc97/Anime4K that can do real-time upscaling of anime.
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[Shaders] Les shaders haut de gamme AI dans le lecteur vidéo MPV en temps réel [Anime 4K, FSRCNNX]
Anime 4k
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NVIDIA RTX Video Super Resolution is now supported by VLC media player - VideoCardz.com
You can start with the Anime4k setup guide: https://github.com/bloc97/Anime4K/blob/master/md/GLSL_Instructions_Windows.md
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Microsoft Edge is getting a video upscaler to make blurry old videos look better
Personally, it's not really any better than mpv filters like NIS [0] (Nvidia Image Scaling, which does not use AI but is somehow more sharp than these filters) as well as Anime4k [1] (which does use AI but only in the training phase to create the initial glsl file which then does not use AI inferencing but plain old image filters).
Combine mpv with its yt-dlp [2] and SponsorBlock support [3] and you have a competent way to upscale your own YouTube (and other types of [4]) videos.
[0] https://gist.github.com/agyild/7e8951915b2bf24526a9343d951db...
[1] https://github.com/bloc97/Anime4K
[2] https://www.funkyspacemonkey.com/replace-youtube-dl-with-yt-...
[3] https://github.com/po5/mpv_sponsorblock
[4] https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/supportedsites....
What are some alternatives?
Real-ESRGAN - Real-ESRGAN aims at developing Practical Algorithms for General Image/Video Restoration.
waifu2x - Image Super-Resolution for Anime-Style Art
realsr-ncnn-vulkan - RealSR super resolution implemented with ncnn library
better-mpv-config - An improved MPV Media Player v3 configuration file.
Waifu2x-Extension-GUI - Video, Image and GIF upscale/enlarge(Super-Resolution) and Video frame interpolation. Achieved with Waifu2x, Real-ESRGAN, Real-CUGAN, RTX Video Super Resolution VSR, SRMD, RealSR, Anime4K, RIFE, IFRNet, CAIN, DAIN, and ACNet.
FSRCNN-TensorFlow - An implementation of the Fast Super-Resolution Convolutional Neural Network in TensorFlow
video2x - A lossless video/GIF/image upscaler achieved with waifu2x, Anime4K, SRMD and RealSR. Started in Hack the Valley II, 2018.
plex-mpv-shim - Cast media from Plex Mobile and Web apps to MPV. (Unofficial)
waifu2x-ncnn-vulkan - waifu2x converter ncnn version, runs fast on intel / amd / nvidia / apple-silicon GPU with vulkan
iina - The modern video player for macOS.
Pytorch - Tensors and Dynamic neural networks in Python with strong GPU acceleration
mpv - 🎥 Command line video player