waifu2x VS Real-ESRGAN

Compare waifu2x vs Real-ESRGAN and see what are their differences.

waifu2x

Image Super-Resolution for Anime-Style Art (by nagadomi)

Real-ESRGAN

Real-ESRGAN aims at developing Practical Algorithms for General Image/Video Restoration. (by xinntao)
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waifu2x Real-ESRGAN
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0.0 0.0
12 months ago 6 days ago
Lua Python
MIT License BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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waifu2x

Posts with mentions or reviews of waifu2x. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-09.

Real-ESRGAN

Posts with mentions or reviews of Real-ESRGAN. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-24.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing waifu2x and Real-ESRGAN you can also consider the following projects:

video2x - A lossless video/GIF/image upscaler achieved with waifu2x, Anime4K, SRMD and RealSR. Started in Hack the Valley II, 2018.

ESRGAN - ECCV18 Workshops - Enhanced SRGAN. Champion PIRM Challenge on Perceptual Super-Resolution. The training codes are in BasicSR.

Anime4K - A High-Quality Real Time Upscaler for Anime Video

SwinIR - SwinIR: Image Restoration Using Swin Transformer (official repository)

Magpie - An all-purpose window upscaler for Windows 10/11.

GFPGAN - GFPGAN aims at developing Practical Algorithms for Real-world Face Restoration.

VQGAN-CLIP - Just playing with getting VQGAN+CLIP running locally, rather than having to use colab.

BSRGAN - Designing a Practical Degradation Model for Deep Blind Image Super-Resolution (ICCV, 2021) (PyTorch) - We released the training code!

cupscale - Image Upscaling GUI based on ESRGAN

Real-ESRGAN-colab - A Real-ESRGAN model trained on a custom dataset

upscayl - 🆙 Upscayl - Free and Open Source AI Image Upscaler for Linux, MacOS and Windows built with Linux-First philosophy.

a-PyTorch-Tutorial-to-Super-Resolution - Photo-Realistic Single Image Super-Resolution Using a Generative Adversarial Network | a PyTorch Tutorial to Super-Resolution