Made to restore screentones and remove compression artifacts in manga images with widths between 650 and 900 pixels (can be more than 900).

2x Manga Ora

Purpose: Compression Removal, Noise Reduction, Line Correction, MPEG2 / LD Artifact Removal

This is my first model release. The model was inspired from a personal project which I have been pursuing for some time now, which this model aims to solve. This model will upscale low resolution hand drawn animation from 1970s to 2000. The colors are retained with effective noise control. Details and Textures are maintained to a good degree considering animations. Color Spills are also corrected depending on the colors. Shades of white and yellows have been difficult. It also makes the lines slightly sharper and thinner. This could be a plus depending on your source. The model is also temporally stable across my tests with little observable issues. 

**Showcase:** 
Images - https://imgsli.com/MjYwNzY1/12/13
Video Sample -  https://t.ly/Jp7-w vs Upscale - https://t.ly/PdsKs

2x Pooh V4

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.

SwatKats

4x photo upscaler on the SSDIR_Sharp dataset, trained with otf, using the same settings as Real_HAT_GAN.  
These otf values are very high in my opinion. This was an experiment if I used the same settings as Real_HAT_GAN (therefore the name).   
This model will denoise very strongly and smooth out a lot (so a lot of details will be lost. But maybe this effect might be beneficial to someone)

4xReal_SSDIR_DAT_GAN

Vast improvement over v1 in low frequency detail; moiré and artifacting reduced significantly and less random noise from JPEG artefacts in the input. Also now only works on 1 channel images, so it runs slightly faster on average and resulting images are much smaller but it might not work on some ESRGAN implementations, I personally recommend using chaiNNer. v1 may still be better in some edge cases.

There's also a supplementary 1x model that denoises very low quality LRs and smooths halftones so the image works better with the 4x model. Only trained it to help build the dataset and it's useless for already decent-ish LRs but may help you in some situations.

2x Manga Ora

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