ESRGAN VS upscayl

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.

Yes, with Upscayl, we’re already doing that (https://upscayl.org).

It’s not as fast yet but it’s extremely good. Good enough that you could print a low resolution image after upscaling.

Windows has caused us a lot of issues with Upscayl (https://upscayl.org).

I personally do not use Windows but most of our errors are reported by Windows users where sometimes path parsing is a problem or the drivers mess up vulkan configuration.

> I guess yesterday's science fiction is now our reality.

That's actually what's written on https://upscayl.org, "From Science Fiction to Reality" haha

that website? No, I just used upscayl with the Digital Art preset

Upscayl, I've used it before, it's great

You can use Upscayl on pc and SuperImage on android to enhance your image so you don't have to find the hd version, both the applications uses you device's gpu to enhance your image.

might as well just run upscayl locally then. https://github.com/upscayl/upscayl

Instead of finding images that are already FullHD, I've found an open source software for image upscaling which seems to work very well with digital art/styles similar to something like Studio Ghibli, which is the style as was going for, so works great for me!

Considering a 4080RTX for AI tools performance in the future, noticed a big performance gap in upscayl, while using a rtx card vs non rtx https://github.com/upscayl/upscayl