4x photo upscaler for faces with otf jpg compression, blur and resize, trained on FFHQ dataset. This has been trained on and for faces, but i guess can also be used for other photos, might be able to retain skin detail. This is not face restoration, but simply a 4x upscaler trained on faces, therefore input images need to be of good quality if good output quality is desired.

4xFFHQDAT

Since the above 4xFFHQDAT model is not able to handle the noise present in low quality input images, i made a small variant/finetune of this, the 4xFFHQLDAT model. This model might come in handy if your input image is of bad quality/not suited for the previous model. I basically made this model in a response to an input image posted in upscaling-results channel as a request to this upscale model (since 4xFFHQDAT would not be able to handle noise), see Imgsli1 example below for result.

4xFFHQLDAT

Description: 4x photo upscaler for faces, trained on the FaceUp dataset. These models are an improvement over the previously released 4xFFHQDAT and are its successors. These models are released together with the FaceUp dataset, plus the accompanying [youtube video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBiVIzQkptI)

This model comes in 4 different versions:  
4xFaceUpDAT (for good quality input)  
4xFaceUpLDAT (for lower quality input, can additionally denoise)  
4xFaceUpSharpDAT (for good quality input, produces sharper output, trained without USM but sharpened input images, good quality input)  
4xFaceUpSharpLDAT (for lower quality input, produces sharper output, trained without USM but sharpened input images, can additionally denoise)  

I recommend trying out 4xFaceUpDAT

4xFaceUpLDAT

4xFaceUpSharpLDAT

Description: 4x realistic upscaler that may also work for general purpose usage. It was trained with OTF random degradation with a very low to very high range of degradations, including blur, noise, and compression. Trained with the same Frankendata dataset that I used for the pretrain model.

Frankendata_FullDegradation_SRFormer

Remove noise, grain, box blur, lens blur and gaussian blur and increase overall image quality.

LADDIER1

Upscale small photos with compression to 4x their size.

Trying to extend my previous model to be able to handle compression (JPG 100-30) by manually altering the training dataset, since 4xLSDIRCompact can't handle compression. Use this instead of 4xLSDIRCompact if your photo has compression (like an image from the web).

LSDIR Compact C

Upscale compressed photos to x4 their size.

Able to handle JPG compression (30-100).

LSDIR Compact C3

Upscale small photos with compression, noise and slight blur to 4x their size.

Extending my last 4xLSDIRCompact model to Real-ESRGAN, meaning trained on synthetic data instead to handle more kinds of degradations, it should be able to handle compression, noise, and slight blur.

Here is a comparison to show that 4xLSDIRCompact cannot handle compression artifacts, and that these two models will produce better output for that specific scenario. These models are not ‘better’ than the previous one, they are just meant to handle a different use case.

LSDIR Compact R

A 4x photo upscale DAT model trained with otf (resize, jpg, small blur) on the LSDIR dataset.

4xLSDIRDAT

Interpolation of 4xLSDIRplusC and 4xLSDIRplusR to handle jpg compression and a little bit of noise/blur

4xLSDIRplus

The RealESRGAN_x4plus finetuned with the big LSDIR dataset (84,991 images / 165 GB), with manually added jpg compression.

4xLSDIRplusC

The RealESRGAN_x4plus finetuned with the big LSDIR dataset (84,991 images / 165 GB), with jpg compression and noise and blur

4xLSDIRplusR

Purpose: Clean Real-World Images

Upscaling of realistic images/photos with noise and compression artifacts

NMKD Superscale

4xNomos2_otf_esrgan

Scale: 4  
Architecture: ESRGAN  
Architecture Option: esrgan  
[Github Release Link](https://github.com/Phhofm/models/releases/tag/4xNomos2_otf_esrgan)  

Author: Philip Hofmann  
License: CC-BY-0.4  
Purpose: Restoration  
Subject: Photography  
Input Type: Images  
Release Date: 22.06.2024  

Dataset: Nomos-v2  
Dataset Size: 6000  
OTF (on the fly augmentations): Yes  
Pretrained Model: RealESRGAN_x4plus  
Iterations: 246'000  
Batch Size: 8  
GT Size: 256  

Description:  

4x ESRGAN model for photography, trained using the Real-ESRGAN otf degradation pipeline.  

Showcase:
[Slow Pics 8 Examples](https://slow.pics/s/Y5wdyTPh?canvas-mode=fit-width&image-fit=contain)

4xNomos2_otf_esrgan

4xNomos2_realplksr_dysample  
Scale: 4  
Architecture: [RealPLKSR with Dysample](https://github.com/muslll/neosr/?tab=readme-ov-file#supported-archs)  
Architecture Option: [realplksr](https://github.com/muslll/neosr/blob/master/neosr/archs/realplksr_arch.py)  
[Github Release](https://github.com/Phhofm/models/releases/tag/4xNomos2_realplksr_dysample)  

Author: Philip Hofmann  
License: CC-BY-0.4  
Purpose: Pretrained  
Subject: Photography  
Input Type: Images  
Release Date: 30.06.2024  

Dataset: [nomosv2](https://github.com/muslll/neosr/?tab=readme-ov-file#-datasets)  
Dataset Size: 6000  
OTF (on the fly augmentations): No  
Pretrained Model: [4xmssim_realplksr_dysample_pretrain](https://github.com/Phhofm/models/releases/tag/4xmssim_realplksr_dysample_pretrain)  
Iterations: 185'000  
Batch Size: 8  
GT Size: 256, 512  

Description: 
A Dysample RealPLKSR 4x upscaling model that was trained with / handles jpg compression down to 70 on the Nomosv2 dataset, preserves DoF.   
Based on the [4xmssim_realplksr_dysample_pretrain](https://github.com/Phhofm/models/releases/tag/4xmssim_realplksr_dysample_pretrain) I released 3 days ago.  
This model affects / saturate colors, which can be counteracted a bit by using wavelet color fix, as used in these examples.  

Showcase:
[Slowpics](https://slow.pics/s/p3sMnd5l)

4xNomos2_realplksr_dysample

4x photo upscaler with otf jpg compression and blur, trained on musl's Nomos8k_sfw dataset for realisic sr

Nomos8kSC

i made this model to upscale old anime and denoise.

OLDIES_FINAL

Skilled in working with cats, hair, parties, and creating clear images. Also proficient in resizing photos and enlarging large, sharp images. Can effectively improve images from small sizes as well (300px at smallest on one side, depending on the subject). Experienced in experimenting with techniques like upscaling with this model twice and then reducing it by 50% to enhance details, especially in features like hair or animals.

4xPurePhoto-RealPLSKR

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

Description: 4x photo upscaler on the SSDIR_Sharp dataset, trained with otf for jpg, resize and small blur. This model sharpens.

4xSSDIRDAT

UniScale_Restore has strong compression removal that helps with restoring heavily compressed or noisy images. It is intended to compete with BSRGAN. Trained with BSRGAN_Resize and Combo_Noise in traiNNer.

UniScale Restore

Version of UniScale trained with camera noise injection (NR = Noise Removal). This model removes noise from images while upscaling.

UniScaleNR Balanced

UniScaleNR Strong

Purpose: Game textures/Art

This model upscales artwork for the game Volfoss (2001). The model peaked in quality very quickly. The NR model removes most noise, but has the downside of removing transparent portions. Use the main model in most cases.

Architecture	SRFormer
Scale	4x
Color Mode	RGB
License	None
Date	2023-12-19
Dataset	Custom dataset
Dataset size	122065
Training iterations	460000
Training epochs	10
Training batch size	4
Training HR size	192

Frankendata_FullDegradation_SRFormer

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