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Comparisons among different anime models

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Update News

  • 2022/04/24: Release AnimeVideo-v3. We have made the following improvements:
    • better naturalness
    • Fewer artifacts
    • more faithful to the original colors
    • better texture restoration
    • better background restoration

Comparisons

We have compared our RealESRGAN-AnimeVideo-v3 with the following methods. Our RealESRGAN-AnimeVideo-v3 can achieve better results with faster inference speed.

  • waifu2x with the hyperparameters: tile=0, noiselevel=2
  • Real-CUGAN: we use the 20220227 version, the hyperparameters are: cache_mode=0, tile=0, alpha=1.
  • our RealESRGAN-AnimeVideo-v3

Results

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More natural results, better background restoration | Input | waifu2x | Real-CUGAN | RealESRGAN
AnimeVideo-v3 | | :---: | :---: | :---: | :---: | |157083983-bec52c67-9a5e-4eed-afef-01fe6cd2af85_patch | | | | |a0010_patch | | | | |00000044_patch | | | |

Fewer artifacts, better detailed textures | Input | waifu2x | Real-CUGAN | RealESRGAN
AnimeVideo-v3 | | :---: | :---: | :---: | :---: | |00000053_patch | | | | |Disney_v4_22_018514_s2_patch | | | | |Japan_v2_0_007261_s2_patch | | | | |huluxiongdi_2_patch | | | |

Other better results | Input | waifu2x | Real-CUGAN | RealESRGAN
AnimeVideo-v3 | | :---: | :---: | :---: | :---: | |Japan_v2_1_128525_s1_patch | | | | |tianshuqitan_2_patch | | | | |00000051_patch 00000051_patch | | | | |00000099_patch | | | | |00000016_patch | | | |

Inference Speed

PyTorch

Note that we only report the model time, and ignore the IO time.

GPU Input Resolution waifu2x Real-CUGAN RealESRGAN-AnimeVideo-v3
V100 1921 x 1080 - 3.4 fps 10.0 fps
V100 1280 x 720 - 7.2 fps 22.6 fps
V100 640 x 480 - 24.4 fps 65.9 fps

ncnn

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