Improvement of low-quality cartoons from broadcast sources.
Will greatly increase the visual quality of bad broadcast tape sources of '80s and '90s cartoons (e.g. Garfield and Friends, Heathcliff, DuckTales, etc). Directly addresses chroma blur, dot crawl, and rainbowing. You're highly advised to take care of haloing beforehand in your favorite video editor as the model will not fix it and may make existing halos more noticeable.

BroadcastToStudio Lite

Fix vertical blur / split lines / shadowing. A 1x lite model of my 2xSwatKats. Resolves the same video problems as before, but 1x and faster and meant for chaining to other 2x models (or whatever). Input MUST be 540 vertical as the blur problem is very resolution sensitive.

SwatKats Lite

I used frames from 5 episodes from the PAL DVD sets with differing quality levels against the German Blu-rays in order to reverse engineer an AstroRes model. Detail enhancement is very high though it helps to have a good quality source (of course). The model will remove MPEG-2, some halos, and PAL-conversion artifacts like image trails and faded lines to great effect. Temporal stability is quite good.

AstroManLite

Purpose: To recreate the upscale process used in the He-Man German Blu-ray release.

A followup to my previous AstroManLite model. The primary focus is on detail preservation and enhancement of decent DVD material instead of artifact repair. I eliminated the attempt to remove temporal artifacts from the He-Man DVDs as it proved detrimental to the final results. It will, however, remove MPEG-2 artifacts to great effect.

AstroManPlus 262k

Using the Kineko 4K scan the hope was to clean up the Funi DVD releases and upscale to something comparable. This model degrains the series pretty damn well, but what's revealed beneath is a lot of moving noise that's probably best dealt with in pre- or post- with a video editor like AVISynth. So while the model is remarkably temporally stable, the DBZ sources certainly aren't. The movies look really nice when upscaled with raw input, though.

2x_DBZScanLite

Purpose: Digital Animation

A very focused model meant for upscaling the TMNT 2003 DVDs. Degradations were added via AVISynth in order to match the video on the TMNT 2003 DVDs to correct the source problems. Problems corrected include aliased red chroma, chroma vertical blur, bad deinterlacing, banding, compression "grain", and poor animation line detail. The AVS scripts for the LR's were run through HCEnc to get authentic low bit rate MPEG-2 artifacts for fixing. By design, the final model gives a very digital-looking result and does not do a good job of retaining textures as the style of TMNT 2003 is all flats and gradients.

DigiGradients Lite

Purpose: Digital Animation

Meant as a versatile model for upscaling high detail digital anime and cartoons. Has debanding, MPEG-2 correction, and halo reduction. Trained to handle both 4:3 and 16:9 DVD material with equal efficacy. Will retain a lot of textures except for the really high freq stuff.

Digitoon Lite

Purpose: Upscale Evangelion episode 16

An ESRGAN Lite model trained on the dataset provided by pwnsweet. I had to make the adjustment of transfering average brightness and contrast from the LR's to the HR's to avoid flashing in the final model. Otherwise the dataset is as provided.

https://imgsli.com/MjM5Njk5

Eva16Lite 201k

Purpose: Upscale Evangelion episode 16

An earlier iteration of my other ESRGAN lite model. After some closer examination at the video output of the other model I think this one is also worth considering. For being at such an early stage, this model is extremely stable, which makes me think the other model may be exhibiting some overfitting issues. Definitely worth a look.

Eva16Lite 64k

Meant to preserve original 4:3 framing of G&F while upscaling. Trained to handle all seven seasons, which drastically differ in quality. Fixes include rainbowing, dot-crawl, halos, general noise, and of course MPEG-2 artifacts. It should be generally flexible in dealing with different degrees of those artifacts, but as always the cleaner the source the better. The model could be useful with other shows from the '80s and '90s with ugly video sources. Maybe.

2x_Garfield1_308k

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.

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