HAT VS upscayl

Wrote more here but in my experience the free model HAT (Real_HAT_GAN_SRx4.pth) is the best overall, in terms of faithful reconstruction of the ground truth while also removing noise, compression artifacts, ringing, clipped dynamic range, etc. It maybe smooths out the fine details a bit too much but adding some noise after upscaling helps.

I'd like to add https://github.com/XPixelGroup/HAT but obviously dropping the pth into a folder isn't going to do it. Is it possible to make it work or have to wait for AUTOMATIC1111 to hopefully add it in?

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