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

Streets with dense foliage in the background. Outdoor scenes.

CountryRoads

Official Paper pretrain model.

See https://github.com/XPixelGroup/HAT for more details.

HAT-L_SRx4_ImageNet-pretrain

Official Paper model.

See https://github.com/XPixelGroup/HAT for more details.

HAT-S_SRx4

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

NMKD Siax ("CX")

I release my span otf series:
They come in three variations: weak, middle, and strong.
Mainly meant for photos (can be tried on other things of course).

(Also there is a non-otf span model I had been working on simultaneously that I will release shortly, should give better results on less degraded input in comparison to this span otf series)

Basically I trained the otf_strong for 90k iter and then medium and weak based off that, with some more training to de-learn (tone down) the (too?) strong degradations. Used discrim resets to correct occuring colorloss in all of them. gt size was for the most part 512 with batch 9 (since i hoped it would give better results) with 0.55 it/s training speed (first 40k at the beginning were gt size 256 with batch 20 with 0.58 it/s).

Nomos8k_span_otf_medium

Nomos8k_span_otf_strong

Nomos8k_span_otf_weak

Nomos8kHAT-L_otf

NomosUniDAT_otf

4x general purpose upscaler for non-degraded content.

Has been trained as paired dataset on box downsamples as a DAT2 model, AdamW with pixel, perceptual, gan, color, ldl and ff loss.

4xNomosUniDAT2_box

[Omni Aggregation Networks for Lightweight Image Super-Resolution (OmniSR)](https://github.com/Francis0625/Omni-SR)

While lightweight ViT framework has made tremendous progress in image super-resolution, its uni-dimensional
self-attention modeling, as well as homogeneous aggregation scheme, limit its effective receptive field (ERF) to
include more comprehensive interactions from both spatial and channel dimensions. To tackle these drawbacks,
this work proposes two enhanced components under a new Omni-SR architecture. First, an Omni Self-Attention (OSA) block is proposed based on dense interaction principle, which can simultaneously model pixel-interaction from both spatial and channel dimensions, mining the potential correlations across omni-axis (i.e., spatial and channel). Coupling with mainstream window partitioning strategies, OSA can achieve superior performance with compelling computational budgets. Second, a multi-scale interaction scheme is proposed to mitigate sub-optimal ERF (i.e., premature saturation) in shallow models, which facilitates local propagation and meso-/global-scale interactions, rendering an omni-scale aggregation building block. Extensive experiments demonstrate that Omni-SR achieves recordhigh performance on lightweight super-resolution benchmarks (e.g., 26.95dB@Urban100 ×4 with only 792K parameters). Our code is available at https://github.com/Francis0625/Omni-SR

OmniSR 4x DF2K

OmniSR 4x DIV2K

Purpose: upscaling model for amateur to professional photos (regular)

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.

Original image, second is upscale with the model once, and the last is upscaled with model twice.

PurePhoto span

Rybu

Purpose: Intended as a pretrain model, can be used to upscale undegraded photos.

Original Link: https://github.com/terrainer/AI-Upscaling-Models/tree/main/4xSPANkendata

4x realistic upscaler that may also work for general purpose usage. Trained on Bicubic downscaled tiles from very high quality images.

Iterations: 500k, fine-tuned with 120k, then 110k, then 75k

batch_size: 32, 16, 12, 10

HR_size: 192, 256, 320, 192

Epoch: Unknown, 32, 20, 12

Dataset_size: 58,420 512x512 tiles, downscaled with a variety of traditional algorithms and CAR

SPANkendata

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 strikes a nice balance between sharpness and realism. This model can upscale almost anything well. It was originally intended to upscale game textures, but was expanded into a universal upscaler. Interp is these two models interpolated.

UniScale Balanced

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

UniScale Strong

UniversalUpscalerV2 Neutral

General Upscaler

Comparison with v1: https://imgsli.com/NDc3ODA/1/2

UniversalUpscalerV2 Sharp

UniversalUpscalerV2 Sharper

Basically realesrgan-x4plus without the degradation training. Supposed to help retain more details, but unfortunately due to the dataset (I think) still blurs details adjacent to other objects.

realesrgan-x4minus

Real-World Super-Resolution via Kernel Estimation and Noise Injection

Our solution is the winner of CVPR NTIRE 2020 Challenge on Real-World Super-Resolution in both tracks.

Recent state-of-the-art super-resolution methods have achieved impressive performance on ideal datasets regardless of blur and noise. However, these methods always fail in real-world image super-resolution, since most of them adopt simple bicubic downsampling from high-quality images to construct Low-Resolution (LR) and High-Resolution (HR) pairs for training which may lose track of frequency-related details. To address this issue, we focus on designing a novel degradation framework for real-world images by estimating various blur kernels as well as real noise distributions. Based on our novel degradation framework, we can acquire LR images sharing a common domain with real-world images. Then, we propose a real-world super-resolution model aiming at better perception. Extensive experiments on synthetic noise data and real-world images demonstrate that our method outperforms the state-of-the-art methods, resulting in lower noise and better visual quality. In addition, our method is the winner of NTIRE 2020 Challenge on both tracks of Real-World Super-Resolution, which significantly outperforms other competitors by large margins.

for corrupted images with processing noise.

Architecture	ESRGAN
Scale	4x
Size	64nf23nb
Color Mode	RGB
License	WTFPL Private use Commercial use Distribution Modifications Disclaimer
Date	2021-04-01
Dataset	Realistic images
Training iterations	101000
Training batch size	4
Training HR size	128
Training OTF	No

UniversalUpscalerV2 Sharp

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