Real-ESRGAN

Colab Demo for Real-ESRGAN .
Portable Windows / Linux / MacOS executable files for Intel/AMD/Nvidia GPU. You can find more information here.

Real-ESRGAN aims at developing Practical Algorithms for General Image Restoration.
We extend the powerful ESRGAN to a practical restoration application (namely, Real-ESRGAN), which is trained with pure synthetic data.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions can be found in FAQ.md.

🚩 Updates

✅ Support arbitrary scale with --outscale (It actually further resizes outputs with LANCZOS4). Add RealESRGAN_x2plus.pth model.
✅ The inference code supports: 1) tile options; 2) images with alpha channel; 3) gray images; 4) 16-bit images.
✅ The training codes have been released. A detailed guide can be found in Training.md.

If Real-ESRGAN is helpful in your photos/projects, please help to ⭐ this repo. Thanks😊
Other recommended projects: ▶️ GFPGAN ▶️ BasicSR ▶️ facexlib

📖 Real-ESRGAN: Training Real-World Blind Super-Resolution with Pure Synthetic Data

[Paper] [Project Page] [Demo]
Xintao Wang, Liangbin Xie, Chao Dong, Ying Shan
Applied Research Center (ARC), Tencent PCG
Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

We have provided a pretrained model (RealESRGAN_x4plus.pth) with upsampling X4.
Note that RealESRGAN may still fail in some cases as the real-world degradations are really too complex.
Moreover, it may not perform well on human faces, text, etc, which will be optimized later.

Real-ESRGAN will be a long-term supported project (in my current plan 😃). It will be continuously updated in my spare time.

Here is a TODO list in the near future:

optimize for human faces
optimize for texts
optimize for anime images [in progress]
support more scales
support controllable restoration strength

If you have any good ideas or demands, please open an issue/discussion to let me know.
If you have some images that Real-ESRGAN could not well restored, please also open an issue/discussion. I will record it (but I cannot guarantee to resolve it:stuck_out_tongue:). If necessary, I will open a page to specially record these real-world cases that need to be solved, but the current technology is difficult to handle well.

Portable executable files

You can download Windows / Linux / MacOS executable files for Intel/AMD/Nvidia GPU.

This executable file is portable and includes all the binaries and models required. No CUDA or PyTorch environment is needed.

You can simply run the following command (the Windows example, more information is in the README.md of each executable files):

./realesrgan-ncnn-vulkan.exe -i input.jpg -o output.png

We have provided three models:

realesrgan-x4plus (default)
realesrnet-x4plus
esrgan-x4

You can use the -n argument for other models, for example, ./realesrgan-ncnn-vulkan.exe -i input.jpg -o output.png -n realesrnet-x4plus

Note that it may introduce block inconsistency (and also generate slightly different results from the PyTorch implementation), because this executable file first crops the input image into several tiles, and then processes them separately, finally stitches together.

This executable file is based on the wonderful Tencent/ncnn and realsr-ncnn-vulkan by nihui.

🔧 Dependencies and Installation

Python >= 3.7 (Recommend to use Anaconda or Miniconda)
PyTorch >= 1.7

Installation

Clone repo

git clone https://github.com/xinntao/Real-ESRGAN.git
cd Real-ESRGAN

Install dependent packages

# Install basicsr - https://github.com/xinntao/BasicSR
# We use BasicSR for both training and inference
pip install basicsr
pip install -r requirements.txt
python setup.py develop

⚡ Quick Inference

Download pre-trained models: RealESRGAN_x4plus.pth

Download pretrained models:

wget https://github.com/xinntao/Real-ESRGAN/releases/download/v0.1.0/RealESRGAN_x4plus.pth -P experiments/pretrained_models

Inference!

python inference_realesrgan.py --model_path experiments/pretrained_models/RealESRGAN_x4plus.pth --input inputs

Results are in the results folder

🏰 Model Zoo

💻 Training

A detailed guide can be found in Training.md.

BibTeX

@Article{wang2021realesrgan,
    title={Real-ESRGAN: Training Real-World Blind Super-Resolution with Pure Synthetic Data},
    author={Xintao Wang and Liangbin Xie and Chao Dong and Ying Shan},
    journal={arXiv:2107.10833},
    year={2021}
}

📧 Contact

If you have any question, please email xintao.wang@outlook.com or xintaowang@tencent.com.

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