Real-ESRGAN V0.2.3.0 Release Note #182

xinntao · 2021-12-12T12:26:00Z

xinntao
Dec 12, 2021
Maintainer

Long long time no see😺

We have added small models for anime videos: 🎉

You can find demos and usages in https://github.com/xinntao/Real-ESRGAN/blob/master/docs/anime_video_model.md

✅ We add small models that are optimized for anime videos :-)

Now we have added two models.

Models	Scale	Description
RealESRGANv2-animevideo-xsx2	X2	Anime video model with XS size
RealESRGANv2-animevideo-xsx4	X4	Anime video model with XS size

This release also contains the following files:

RealESRGANv2-animevideo-xsx2.pth
RealESRGANv2-animevideo-xsx4.pth
realesrgan-ncnn-vulkan-20211212-windows.zip
realesrgan-ncnn-vulkan-20211212-macos.zip
realesrgan-ncnn-vulkan-20211212-ubuntu.zip

This discussion was created from the release Real-ESRGAN V0.2.3.0 Release Note.

Troceleng · 2021-12-12T20:45:54Z

Troceleng
Dec 12, 2021

I have to say, I'm VERY impressed! Thank you very much for the continued work.

How come the models are so tiny? Typical community-created 4x models are about 64 MB.

1 reply

xinntao Dec 16, 2021
Maintainer Author

Thanks ;-)

AaronFeng753 · 2021-12-15T10:17:47Z

AaronFeng753
Dec 15, 2021

Some Video benchmark results:

Using Waifu2x-Extension-GUI v3.86.01, 2X upscale, same video, same machine.

Model	Time	Speed
Waifu2x-ncnn-vulkan	31s	13.45x
realesrgan-x4plus-anime	417s	1x
RealESRGANv2-animevideo-xsX2	39s	10.69x
RealESRGANv2-animevideo-xsX4	44s	9.48x

2 replies

xinntao Dec 16, 2021
Maintainer Author

Thank you very much @AaronFeng753
I will add the benchmark to the readme file.
If possible, could you also please add some visual comparisons? :-) Thanks again.

AaronFeng753 Dec 17, 2021

Thank you very much @AaronFeng753 I will add the benchmark to the readme file. If possible, could you also please add some visual comparisons? :-) Thanks again.

I post several kinds of visual comparisons in the comments, glad to help!