Using the Kineko 4K scan the hope was to clean up the Funi DVD releases and upscale to something comparable. This model degrains the series pretty damn well, but what's revealed beneath is a lot of moving noise that's probably best dealt with in pre- or post- with a video editor like AVISynth. So while the model is remarkably temporally stable, the DBZ sources certainly aren't. The movies look really nice when upscaled with raw input, though.

2x_DBZScanLite

Purpose: Upscale Evangelion episode 16

An ESRGAN Lite model trained on the dataset provided by pwnsweet. I had to make the adjustment of transfering average brightness and contrast from the LR's to the HR's to avoid flashing in the final model. Otherwise the dataset is as provided.

https://imgsli.com/MjM5Njk5

Eva16Lite 201k

Purpose: Upscale Evangelion episode 16

An earlier iteration of my other ESRGAN lite model. After some closer examination at the video output of the other model I think this one is also worth considering. For being at such an early stage, this model is extremely stable, which makes me think the other model may be exhibiting some overfitting issues. Definitely worth a look.

Eva16Lite 64k

Meant to preserve original 4:3 framing of G&F while upscaling. Trained to handle all seven seasons, which drastically differ in quality. Fixes include rainbowing, dot-crawl, halos, general noise, and of course MPEG-2 artifacts. It should be generally flexible in dealing with different degrees of those artifacts, but as always the cleaner the source the better. The model could be useful with other shows from the '80s and '90s with ugly video sources. Maybe.

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In addition to removing the vertical blur, the model upscales, sharpens and will remove MPEG-2 artifacting and a small amount of rainbowing and dot crawl. Another series afflicted with the vertical blur is Avatar the Last Airbender, which can be repaired by this model. The video fed into the model MUST be 540 vertical for the deblur to work properly.

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