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waifu2x

Image Super-Resolution for anime-style-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 ID: ami-0be01e4f
AMI NAME: waifu2x-server
Instance Type: g2.2xlarge
Region: US West (N.California)
OS: Ubuntu 14.04
User: ubuntu
Created at: 2015-08-12

Third Party Software

Third-Party

Dependencies

Hardware

• NVIDIA GPU

Platform

• Torch7
• NVIDIA CUDA

lualocks packages (excludes torch7's default packages)

• lua-csnappy
• md5
• uuid
• turbo

Installation

Setting Up the Command Line Tool Environment

(on Ubuntu 14.04)

Install CUDA

See: NVIDIA CUDA Getting Started Guide for Linux

Download CUDA

sudo dpkg -i cuda-repo-ubuntu1404_7.0-28_amd64.deb
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install cuda

Install Package

sudo apt-get install libsnappy-dev

Install Torch7

See: Getting started with Torch

And install luarocks packages.

luarocks install lua-csnappy
luarocks install md5
luarocks install uuid
PREFIX=$HOME/torch/install luarocks install turbo # if you need web application

Validation

Test the waifu2x command line tool.

th waifu2x.lua

Web Application

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.

Video Encoding

* avconv is ffmpeg on Ubuntu 14.04.

Extracting images and audio from a video. (range: 00:09:00 ~ 00:12:00)

mkdir frames
avconv -i data/raw.avi -ss 00:09:00 -t 00:03:00 -r 24 -f image2 frames/%06d.png
avconv -i data/raw.avi -ss 00:09:00 -t 00:03:00 audio.mp3

Generating a image list.

find ./frames -name "*.png" |sort > data/frame.txt

waifu2x (for example, noise reduction)

mkdir new_frames
th waifu2x.lua -m noise -noise_level 1 -resume 1 -l data/frame.txt -o new_frames/%d.png

Generating a video from waifu2xed images and audio.

avconv -f image2 -r 24 -i new_frames/%d.png -i audio.mp3 -r 24 -vcodec libx264 -crf 16 video.mp4

Training Your Own Model

Notes: If you have cuDNN library, you can use cudnn kernel with -backend cudnn option. And you can convert trained cudnn model to cunn model with tools/cudnn2cunn.lua.

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 with 3000 high-resolution-noise-free-PNG images.)

Converting training data.

th convert_data.lua

Training a Noise Reduction(level1) model

mkdir models/my_model
th train.lua -model_dir models/my_model -method noise -noise_level 1 -test images/miku_noisy.png
th cleanup_model.lua -model models/my_model/noise1_model.t7 -oformat ascii
# usage
th waifu2x.lua -model_dir models/my_model -m noise -noise_level 1 -i images/miku_noisy.png -o output.png

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

Training a Noise Reduction(level2) model

th train.lua -model_dir models/my_model -method noise -noise_level 2 -test images/miku_noisy.png
th cleanup_model.lua -model models/my_model/noise2_model.t7 -oformat ascii
# usage
th waifu2x.lua -model_dir models/my_model -m noise -noise_level 2 -i images/miku_noisy.png -o output.png

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

Training a 2x UpScaling model

th train.lua -model_dir models/my_model -method scale -scale 2 -test images/miku_small.png
th cleanup_model.lua -model models/my_model/scale2.0x_model.t7 -oformat ascii
# usage
th waifu2x.lua -model_dir models/my_model -m scale -scale 2 -i images/miku_small.png -o output.png

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