Nice to release a model again! This one is intended for realistic imagery, and works especially well on faces, hair, and nature shots. It should only be used on somewhat clear shots, without a lot of grain. I trained this model on SPAN, which as of the time of release, you'll need chaiNNer-nightly for. I aimed for a softer, more natural look for this model with as few artifacts as possible.

In addition to the Normal model, I've included a "soft" model. The Soft model is... softer. Basically it was an earlier version of the model with a more limited dataset. It produces more natural output on games or rendered content, but suffers a bit more with realistic stuff.

Note: In shots with DOF (depth of field) or bokeh, unfortunately there will be artifacts. 

Compatibility: You'll have to use the latest chaiNNer-nightly to use this model

ClearRealityV1

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

4xFaceUpDAT

4xFaceUpSharpDAT

A normal ESRGAN model without degradations and without any pretrain, simply an RRDBNet model trained on paired dataset (4x downsampled) on the full LSDIR dataset (84,991 images / 165 GB)

4xLSDIR

Upscale small good quality photos to 4x their size

My first ever model 😄 Well, it’s not the best, but, it’s something 😉 
I provide some 15 examples from the validation set here for you to visually see the generated output (with chaiNNer), photo dimensions are in the name

LSDIR Compact

Upscale photos to x4 their size.

4xLSDIRCompactv2 supersedes the previously released models, it combines all my progress on my compact model. Both CompactC and CompactR had received around 8 hours more training since release with batch size 10 (CompactR had only been up to 5 on release), and these two were then interpolated together. This allows v2 to handle some degradations, while preserving the details of the CompactC model. Examples: https://imgsli.com/MTY0Njgz/0/2

LSDIR Compact v2

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 good quality input photos to x4 their size

The original 4xLSDIRCompact a bit more trained, cannot handle degradation

LSDIRCompactN

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

Upscale (degraded) photos to x4 their size. 

Trained on synthetic data, meant to handle more degradations

LSDIR Compact R3

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), no degradation.

4xLSDIRplusN

this model aims to improve further on what has been achieved by the regular 4xESRGAN and also 4xBox. It can upscale most pictures/photos (granted they are clean enough) without destroying as much detail as the aforementioned models. It generates less moiré like patterns and keeps details without oversharpening or blurring the image too much.

Nickelback

This model aims to improve further on what has been achieved by the old Nickelback which was an improvement attempt over 4xESRGAN and also 4xBox. It can upscale most pictures/photos (granted they are clean enough) without destroying as much detail as Box and basic ESRGAN.

NickelbackFS

Purpose: Coins

Upscale coins. That's it. If you were mad at me because Nickelback doesn't make any sense. Now you have the perfect solution to your problems. If you want to upscale nickels or anything with similar texture made out of metal, now you can. It works pretty well for a joke.

Nickelfront

[Link to Github Release](https://github.com/Phhofm/models/releases/tag/4xNomos2_hq_atd)

4xNomos2_hq_atd  
Scale: 4  
Architecture: [ATD](https://github.com/LabShuHangGU/Adaptive-Token-Dictionary)  
Architecture Option: [atd](https://github.com/muslll/neosr/blob/dc4e3742132bae2c2aa8e8d16de3a9fcec6b1a74/neosr/archs/atd_arch.py#L891)  

Author: Philip Hofmann  
License: CC-BY-0.4  
Purpose: Upscaler  
Subject: Photography  
Input Type: Images  
Release Date: 05.09.2024  

Dataset: [nomosv2](https://github.com/muslll/neosr/?tab=readme-ov-file#-datasets)  
Dataset Size: 6000  
OTF (on the fly augmentations): No  
Pretrained Model: 003_ATD_SRx4_finetune  
Iterations: 180'000  
Batch Size: 2  
Patch Size: 48  
Norm: true  

Description:   
An atd 4x upscaling model, similiar to the [4xNomos2_hq_dat2](https://github.com/Phhofm/models/releases/tag/4xNomos2_hq_dat2) or [4xNomos2_hq_mosr](https://github.com/Phhofm/models/releases/tag/4xNomos2_hq_mosr) models, trained and for usage on non-degraded input to give good quality output.

4xNomos2_hq_atd

[Link to Github Release](https://github.com/Phhofm/models/releases/tag/4xNomos2_hq_dat2)

# 4xNomos2_hq_dat2   
Scale: 4   
Architecture: [DAT](https://github.com/zhengchen1999/dat)   
Architecture Option: [dat2](https://github.com/muslll/neosr/blob/5fba7f162d36052010169e6517dec3b406c569ab/neosr/archs/dat_arch.py#L1111)   

Author: Philip Hofmann   
License: CC-BY-0.4   
Purpose: Upscaler   
Subject: Photography   
Input Type: Images   
Release Date: 29.08.2024   

Dataset: [nomosv2](https://github.com/muslll/neosr/?tab=readme-ov-file#-datasets)   
Dataset Size: 6000   
OTF (on the fly augmentations): No   
Pretrained Model: DAT_2_x4   
Iterations: 140'000   
Batch Size: 4   
Patch Size: 48   

Description:    
A dat2 4x upscaling model, similiar to the [4xNomos2_hq_mosr](https://github.com/Phhofm/models/releases/tag/4xNomos2_hq_mosr) model, trained and for usage on non-degraded input to give good quality output.    

I scored 7 validation outputs of each of the 21 checkpoints (10k-210k) of this model training with 68 metrics.    
[The metric scores can be found in this google sheet](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NL-by7WvZyDMHj5XN8UeDALVSSwH70IKvwV65ATWqrA/edit?usp=sharing).   
The corresponding image files for this scoring can be [found here](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZTp9fBMeawftNqzg4RN9_zIvHtul5jVc/view?usp=sharing)     
Screenshot of the google sheet:     
![|100](https://i.slow.pics/VZJTsrUv.webp)

Release checkpoint has been selected by looking at the scores, manually inspecting, and then getting responses on discord to this quick visual test, A B or C, which denote different checkpoints: https://slow.pics/c/8Akzj6rR   

Checkpoint B is the one released here, but you can also try out [Checkpoint A](https://github.com/Phhofm/models/releases/download/4xNomos2_hq_dat2/4xNomos2_hq_dat2_150000.pth) or [Checkpoint C](https://github.com/Phhofm/models/releases/download/4xNomos2_hq_dat2/4xNomos2_hq_dat2_10000.pth) if you like them better.

## Model Showcase:
[Slowpics](https://slow.pics/c/yuue9WpF)

4xNomos2_hq_dat2

[Link to Github Release](https://github.com/Phhofm/models/releases/tag/4xDRCT-mssim-pretrains)

Since no [DRCT](https://github.com/ming053l/DRCT/tree/main) model releases exist yet, I am releasing my drct-s, drct and drct-l pretrains. 
These can be used to speed up and stabilize early training stages when training new drct models.
Trained with mssim (and augs, and color and lumaloss) on downscaled [nomosuni](https://github.com/muslll/neosr/tree/0ecbeb98dcefd97801da0ea39ca2cd03a87fce21?tab=readme-ov-file#datasets).
Training files are also provided additionally.

## 4xmssim_drct-l_pretrain

**Scale:** 4  
**Architecture:** [DRCT](https://github.com/ming053l/DRCT)  
**Architecture Option:** [DRCT-L](https://github.com/ming053l/DRCT/blob/8c13e63135f494913cd504c073e41ef52250d1d4/options/train/train_DRCT-L_SRx4_ImageNet_from_scratch.yml#L55)  

**Author:** Philip Hofmann  
**License:** CC-BY-0.4  
**Purpose:** Pretrained  
**Subject:** Anime, Photography  
**Input Type:** Images  
**Release Date:** 28.04.2024  

**Dataset:** [nomos_uni](https://github.com/muslll/neosr?tab=readme-ov-file#datasets)  
**Dataset Size:** 2989  
**OTF (on the fly augmentations):** No  
**Pretrained Model:** None (=From Scratch)  
**Iterations:** 108'000  
**Batch Size:** 2-6  
**GT Size:** 128-320  

**Description:** A pretrain to start drct-l model training, since there are no official released drct pretrains yet I trained these myself and release them here.

4xmssim_drct-l_pretrain

[Link to Github Release](https://github.com/Phhofm/models/releases/tag/4xDRCT-mssim-pretrains)

Since no [DRCT](https://github.com/ming053l/DRCT/tree/main) model releases exist yet, I am releasing my drct-s, drct and drct-l pretrains. 
These can be used to speed up and stabilize early training stages when training new drct models.
Trained with mssim (and augs, and color and lumaloss) on downscaled [nomosuni](https://github.com/muslll/neosr/tree/0ecbeb98dcefd97801da0ea39ca2cd03a87fce21?tab=readme-ov-file#datasets).
Training files are also provided additionally.

## 4xmssim_drct_pretrain

**Scale:** 4  
**Architecture:** [DRCT](https://github.com/ming053l/DRCT)  
**Architecture Option:** [DRCT](https://github.com/ming053l/DRCT/blob/8c13e63135f494913cd504c073e41ef52250d1d4/options/train/train_DRCT_SRx4_ImageNet_from_scratch.yml#L55)  

**Author:** Philip Hofmann  
**License:** CC-BY-0.4  
**Purpose:** Pretrained  
**Subject:** Anime, Photography  
**Input Type:** Images  
**Release Date:** 28.04.2024  

**Dataset:** [nomos_uni](https://github.com/muslll/neosr?tab=readme-ov-file#datasets)  
**Dataset Size:** 2989  
**OTF (on the fly augmentations):** No  
**Pretrained Model:** None (=From Scratch)  
**Iterations:** 95'000  
**Batch Size:** 2-6  
**GT Size:** 128-320   

**Description:** A pretrain to start drct model training, since there are no official released drct pretrains yet I trained these myself and release them here.

4xmssim_drct_pretrain

[Link to Github Release](https://github.com/Phhofm/models/releases/tag/4xDRCT-mssim-pretrains)

Since no [DRCT](https://github.com/ming053l/DRCT/tree/main) model releases exist yet, I am releasing my drct-s, drct and drct-l pretrains. 
These can be used to speed up and stabilize early training stages when training new drct models.
Trained with mssim (and augs, and color and lumaloss) on downscaled [nomosuni](https://github.com/muslll/neosr/tree/0ecbeb98dcefd97801da0ea39ca2cd03a87fce21?tab=readme-ov-file#datasets).
Training files are also provided additionally.


## 4xmssim_drct-s_pretrain.pth  

**Scale:** 4  
**Architecture:** [DRCT](https://github.com/ming053l/DRCT)  
**Architecture Option:** [DRCT-S](https://github.com/muslll/neosr/blob/0ecbeb98dcefd97801da0ea39ca2cd03a87fce21/neosr/archs/drct_arch.py#L923)  

**Author:** Philip Hofmann  
**License:** CC-BY-0.4  
**Purpose:** Pretrained  
**Subject:** Anime, Photography  
**Input Type:** Images  
**Release Date:** 28.04.2024  

**Dataset:** [nomos_uni](https://github.com/muslll/neosr?tab=readme-ov-file#datasets)  
**Dataset Size:** 2989  
**OTF (on the fly augmentations):** No  
**Pretrained Model:** None (=From Scratch)  
**Iterations:** 75'000  
**Batch Size:** 6  
**GT Size:** 128-320  

**Description:** A pretrain to start drct-s model training, since there are no official released drct pretrains yet I trained these myself and release them here.

4xmssim_drct-s_pretrain

[Link to Github Release](https://github.com/Phhofm/models/releases/tag/4xmssim_hma_pretrains)

Since no official [HMA](https://github.com/korouuuuu/HMA) model releases exist yet, I am releasing my [hma](https://github.com/muslll/neosr/blob/a50b56de418c938425fd3606697f62d61dbddfc3/neosr/archs/hma_arch.py#L1148) and [hma_medium](https://github.com/muslll/neosr/blob/a50b56de418c938425fd3606697f62d61dbddfc3/neosr/archs/hma_arch.py#L1386) mssim pretrains.   
These can be used to speed up and stabilize early training stages when training new hma models.  
Trained with mssim on [nomosv2](https://github.com/muslll/neosr/tree/a50b56de418c938425fd3606697f62d61dbddfc3?tab=readme-ov-file#-datasets).  


## 4xmssim_hma_pretrain  

**Scale:** 4  
**Architecture:** [HMA](https://github.com/korouuuuu/HMA)  
**Architecture Option:** [hma](https://github.com/muslll/neosr/blob/a50b56de418c938425fd3606697f62d61dbddfc3/neosr/archs/hma_arch.py#L1148)  

**Author:** Philip Hofmann  
**License:** CC-BY-0.4  
**Purpose:** Pretrained  
**Subject:** Photography  
**Input Type:** Images  
**Release Date:** 19.07.2024  

**Dataset:** [nomosv2](https://github.com/muslll/neosr/tree/a50b56de418c938425fd3606697f62d61dbddfc3?tab=readme-ov-file#-datasets)  
**Dataset Size:** 6000  
**OTF (on the fly augmentations):** No  
**Pretrained Model:** None (=From Scratch)  
**Iterations:** 205'000  
**Batch Size:** 4  
**Patch Size:** 96  

**Description:** A pretrain to start hma model training.  

---

## 4xmssim_hma_medium_pretrain  

**Scale:** 4  
**Architecture:** [HMA](https://github.com/korouuuuu/HMA)  
**Architecture Option:** [hma_medium](https://github.com/muslll/neosr/blob/a50b56de418c938425fd3606697f62d61dbddfc3/neosr/archs/hma_arch.py#L1386)  

**Author:** Philip Hofmann  
**License:** CC-BY-0.4  
**Purpose:** Pretrained  
**Subject:** Photography  
**Input Type:** Images  
**Release Date:** 19.07.2024  

**Dataset:** [nomosv2](https://github.com/muslll/neosr/tree/a50b56de418c938425fd3606697f62d61dbddfc3?tab=readme-ov-file#-datasets)  
**Dataset Size:** 6000  
**OTF (on the fly augmentations):** No  
**Pretrained Model:** None (=From Scratch)  
**Iterations:** 150'000  
**Batch Size:** 4  
**Patch Size:** 48  

**Description:** A pretrain to start hma_medium model training.  

---

**Showcase:**  
[slow.pics](https://slow.pics/c/Eoq18VDx)

 4xmssim_hma_pretrains

[Link to Github Release](https://github.com/Phhofm/models/releases/tag/4xmssim_mosr_pretrain)

# 4xmssim_mosr_pretrain  
Scale: 4  
Architecture: [MoSR](https://github.com/umzi2/MoSR)  
Architecture Option: [mosr](https://github.com/umzi2/MoSR/blob/95c5bf73cca014493fe952c2fbc0bdbe593da08f/neosr/archs/mosr_arch.py#L117)  

Author: Philip Hofmann  
License: CC-BY-0.4  
Purpose: Pretrained  
Subject: Photography  
Input Type: Images  
Release Date: 25.08.2024  

Dataset: [nomosv2](https://github.com/muslll/neosr/?tab=readme-ov-file#-datasets)  
Dataset Size: 6000  
OTF (on the fly augmentations): No  
Pretrained Model: None  
Iterations: 420'000  
Batch Size: 6  
Patch Size: 64  

Description:   
A 4x [MoSR](https://github.com/umzi2/MoSR) pretrain model with mssim only on the Nomos2 dataset, usable as a pretrain when starting training new mosr models.  

Training metrics graphs:  
![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b66b75d8-f83c-4b6e-8094-ef5e5cba9c81)  

Showcase:  
[Slowpics](https://slow.pics/c/T59QQaQ0)

 4xmssim_mosr_pretrain

4xmssim_realplksr_dysample_pretrain  
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)  

Author: Philip Hofmann  
License: CC-BY-0.4  
Purpose: Pretrained  
Subject: Photography  
Input Type: Images  
Release Date: 27.06.2024  

Dataset: [nomosv2](https://github.com/muslll/neosr/?tab=readme-ov-file#-datasets)  
Dataset Size: 6000  
OTF (on the fly augmentations): No  
Pretrained Model: None (=From Scratch)  
Iterations: 200'000  
Batch Size: 8  
GT Size: 192, 512  

Description: [Dysample](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.15085) had been recently added to RealPLKSR, which from what I had seen can resolve or help avoid the checkerboard / grid pattern on inference outputs. So with the [commits from three days ago, the 24.06.24, on neosr](https://github.com/muslll/neosr/commits/master/?since=2024-06-24&until=2024-06-24), I wanted to create a 4x photo pretrain I can then use to train more realplksr models with dysample specifically to stabilize training at the beginning.

Showcase:  
[Imgsli](https://imgsli.com/Mjc0OTA1)  
[Slowpics](https://slow.pics/c/I9grkcqM)

4xmssim_realplksr_dysample_pretrain

[Github Release Link](https://github.com/Phhofm/models/releases/4xSPAN_pretrains)

[Neosr](https://github.com/muslll/neosr)'s latest update from yesterday included a [new adaptation of the multi-scale ssim loss](https://github.com/muslll/neosr/wiki/Losses#mssim_opt).     
This was an experiment to test out the difference between making a SPAN pretrain with pixel loss with L1 criteria (as often used in research) vs mssim loss as its only loss.     
Models are provided so they can be used for tests or also used as a pretrain for another SPAN model.  

---

## 4xmssim_span_pretrain

Scale: 4  
Architecture: SPAN  

Author: Philip Hofmann    
License: CC-BY-4.0  
Purpose: Pretrain  
Subject: Realistic, Anime  
Date: 10.04.2024  

Dataset: [nomos_uni](https://github.com/muslll/neosr)  
Dataset Size: 2989   
OTF (on the fly augmentations): No  
Pretrained Model: None  
Iterations: 80'000  
Batch Size: 12  
GT Size: 128  

Description: 4x SPAN pretrain trained on [neosr](https://github.com/muslll/neosr)'s [new adaptation of the multi-scale ssim loss](https://github.com/muslll/neosr/wiki/Losses#mssim_opt) from yesterdays update on downsampled nomos_uni dataset using kim's [dataset destroyer](https://github.com/Kim2091/helpful-scripts/tree/main/Dataset%20Destroyer) with down_up,linear,cubic_mitchell,lanczos,gauss,box (while down_up used the same and with range = 0.15,1.5). 
The new augmentations except CutBlur have also been used (since CutBlur is meant to be applied to real-world SR and may cause undesired effects if applied to bicubic-only). 
Config and training log provided for more details.
 
Showcase: 
[7 Slowpics Examples](https://slow.pics/c/zyilXhKU)

Architecture	ESRGAN
Scale	4x
Size	64nf23nb
Color Mode	RGB
License	GPL-3.0-only Private use Commercial use Distribution Modifications Credit required Same License State Changes No Liability & Warranty Disclaimer
Date	2020-07-10
Dataset	Wallpapers
Training iterations	72000
Training epochs	12
Training batch size	12
Training HR size	128
Training OTF	No

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