waifu2x

Image Super-Resolution for anime/fan-art using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks.

Demo-Application can be found at http://waifu2x.udp.jp/ .

Summary

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References

waifu2x is inspired by SRCNN [1]. 2D character picture (HatsuneMiku) is licensed under CC BY-NC by piapro [2].

• [1] Chao Dong, Chen Change Loy, Kaiming He, Xiaoou Tang, "Image Super-Resolution Using Deep Convolutional Networks", http://arxiv.org/abs/1501.00092
• [2] "For Creators", http://piapro.net/en_for_creators.html

Public AMI

AMI name: waifu2x server
AMI ID: ami-75f01931
Region: N. California
Instance: g2.2xlarge (require a GPU)
OS: Ubuntu 14.04
User: ubuntu

Dependencies

Platform

• Torch7
• NVIDIA CUDA
• NVIDIA cuDNN

Packages (luarocks)

• cutorch
• cunn
• cudnn
• graphicsmagick
• turbo
• md5
• uuid

NOTE: Turbo 1.1.3 has bug in file uploading. Please install from the master branch on github.

Web Application

Please edit the first line in web.lua.

local ROOT = '/path/to/waifu2x/dir'

Run.

th web.lua

View at: http://localhost:8812/

Command line tools

Noise Reduction

th waifu2x.lua -m noise -noise_level 1 -i input_image.png -o output_image.png

th waifu2x.lua -m noise -noise_level 2 -i input_image.png -o output_image.png

2x Upscaling

th waifu2x.lua -m scale -i input_image.png -o output_image.png

Noise Reduction + 2x Upscaling

th waifu2x.lua -m noise_scale -noise_level 1 -i input_image.png -o output_image.png

th waifu2x.lua -m noise_scale -noise_level 2 -i input_image.png -o output_image.png

See also images/gen.sh.

Training Your Own Model

Data Preparation

Genrating a file list.

find /path/to/image/dir -name "*.png" > data/image_list.txt

(You should use PNG! In my case, waifu2x is trained by 3000 PNG images.)

Converting training data.

th convert_data.lua

Training a Noise Reduction(level1) model

th train.lua -method noise -noise_level 1 -test images/miku_noise.png
th cleanup_model.lua -model models/noise1_model.t7 -oformat ascii

You can check the performance of model with models/noise1_best.png.

Training a Noise Reduction(level2) model

th train.lua -method noise -noise_level 2 -test images/miku_noise.png
th cleanup_model.lua -model models/noise2_model.t7 -oformat ascii

You can check the performance of model with models/noise2_best.png.

Training a 2x UPscaling model

th train.lua -method scale -scale 2 -test images/miku_small.png
th cleanup_model.lua -model models/scale2.0x_model.t7 -oformat ascii

You can check the performance of model with models/scale2.0x_best.png.