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

Purpose: Upscale text in very low quality to normal quality.

The upscale model is specifically designed to enhance lower-quality text images, improving their clarity and readability by upscaling them by 2x. It excels at processing moderately sized text, effectively transforming it into high-quality, legible scans. However, the model may encounter challenges when dealing with very small text, as its performance is optimized for text of a certain minimum size. For best results, input images should contain text that is not excessively small.

Text2HD v.1

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

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

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 jpg compression and noise and blur

4xLSDIRplusR

Universal upscaler for clean and slightly compressed images (JPEG quality 75 or better)

NMKD Siax ("CX")

Purpose: Clean Real-World Images

Upscaling of realistic images/photos with noise and compression artifacts

NMKD Superscale

A 4x photo upscaler with otf jpg compression, blur and resize, trained on musl's Nomos8k_sfw dataset for realisic sr, this time based on the [DAT arch](https://github.com/zhengchen1999/DAT), as a finetune on the official 4x DAT model.


The 295 MB file is the pth file which can be run with the [dat reo github code](https://github.com/zhengchen1999/DAT). The 85.8 MB file is an onnx conversion.


All Files can be found in [this google drive folder](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1b2vQHxlFQrVW22osIhQbDk98sdXzzFkx). If above onnx file is not working, you can try the other conversions in the onnx subfolder.


Examples:

[Imgsli1](https://imgsli.com/MTk4Mjg1) (generated with onnx file)

[Imgsli2](https://imgsli.com/MTk4Mjg2) (generated with onnx file)

[Imgsli](https://imgsli.com/MTk4Mjk5) (generated with testscript of dat repo on the three test images in dataset/single with pth file)

4xNomos8kDAT

4x photo upscaler with otf jpg compression and blur, trained on musl's Nomos8k_sfw dataset for realisic sr. 
Provided is a 16fp onnx (154.1MB) download, and a pth (316.2MB) download.
Since this is a big model, upscaling might take a while.

4xNomos8kSCHAT-L

4x photo upscaler with otf jpg compression and blur, trained on musl's Nomos8k_sfw dataset for realisic sr. 
HAT-S version/model. 
Fp16 Onnx (56.5MB) and pth (77.3MB) file download provided.

4xNomos8kSCHAT-S

4x photo upscaler with otf jpg compression and blur, trained on musl's Nomos8k_sfw dataset for realisic sr. SRFormer base model/version. Provided are onnx fp16 (45.8MB) and pth (185.4MB) downloads.

4xNomos8kSCSRFormer

4x Multipurpose DAT upscaler

Trained on DAT with Adan, U-Net SN, huber pixel loss, huber perceptial loss, vanilla gan loss, huber ldl loss and huber focal-frequency loss, on paired nomos_uni (universal dataset containing photographs, anime, text, maps, music sheets, paintings ..) with added jpg compression 40-100 and down_up, bicubic, bilinear, box, nearest and lanczos scales. No blur degradation had been introduced in the training dataset to keep the model from trying to sharpen blurry backgrounds.

The three strengths of this model (design purpose):
1. Multipurpose
2. Handles bokeh effect
3. Handles jpg compression

This model will not:
- Denoise
- Deblur

4xNomosUniDAT_bokeh_jpg

i made this model to upscale old anime and denoise.

OLDIES_FINAL

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

Pretrained: 4xESRGAN

This is my best model yet! It generates lots and lots of detail and leaves a nice texture on images. It works on most images, whether compressed or not. It does work best on JPEG compression though, as that's mostly what it was trained on. It has the ability to restore highly compressed images as well! If you want a more balanced output, check out the UltraMix Collection down below. It's a bunch of interpolated models based around UltraSharp and my other models

UltraSharp

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	ESRGAN
Scale	4x
Size	64nf23nb
Color Mode	RGB
License	CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0 Private use Distribution Modifications Credit required Same License State Changes No Liability & Warranty Disclaimer
Date	2021-08-27
Dataset	Custom Dataset consisting of lossless 4k frames from Metal Arms: Glitch in the System, Just Cause 3, Dirt 3, Forza Horizon 3, Sleeping Dogs, and self-edited photos from SignatureEdits
Dataset size	18909
Training iterations	55400
Training epochs	30
Training batch size	4
Training HR size	128

UniScale Restore

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