How To Know If An Anime Is Upscaled

Anime4K

Anime4K is a set of open up-source, high-quality existent-time anime upscaling/denoising algorithms that can exist implemented in any programming language.

The simplicity and speed of Anime4K allows the user to picket upscaled anime in real time, as we believe in preserving original content and promoting freedom of pick for all anime fans. Re-encoding anime into 4K should be avoided as it is non-reversible, potentially damages original content by introducing artifacts, takes upwardly to O(n²) more deejay space and more importantly, does so without any meaningful decrease in entropy (lost information is lost).

Disclaimer: All art assets used are for demonstration and educational purposes. All rights are reserved to their original owners. If you (as a person or a visitor) own the fine art and do non wish information technology to be associated with this project, please contact us at anime4k.upscale@gmail.com and we will gladly take it down.

Foreword

Anime4K is optimized for native 1080p anime encoded with h.264, h.265 or VC-one.

Even if it might work, it is not optimized for downscaled 720p, 480p or standard definition anime (eg. DVDs). Older anime (especially pre-digital era production) have artifacts that are very difficult to remove, such as bad deinterlacing, camera mistiness during production, severe ringing, film grain, older MPEG pinch artifacts, etc.

This is also non replacement for SRGANs, as they perform much better on depression-resolution images or images with lots of deposition (albeit not in existent time).

What Anime4K does provide is a way to upscale, in real time, 1080p anime for 4K screens while providing a similar effect to SRGANs and beingness much better than waifu2x (Run across comparisons).

Currently, research is being done on better real-time upscaling for lower resolution or older content.

Installation Instructions

Windows (GLSL/MPV)

Linux (GLSL/MPV)

v4.i Low resolution experiment

Results from the experimental SRGAN shaders for 360p -> 4K: (zoom in to view details)

The images are sorted by algorithm speed, bicubic beingness the fastest. FSRCNNX and Anime4K are real-time while waifu2x and Real-ESRGAN are not.

v4

We introduce a line reconstruction algorithm that aims to tackle the distribution shift problem seen in 1080p anime. In the wild anime exhibit a surprising amount of variance caused by low quality compositing due to budget and time constraints that traditional super-resolution algorithms cannot handle. GANs can implicitly encode this distribution shift but are wearisome to use and hard to railroad train. Our algorithm explicitly corrects this distribution shift and allows traditional "MSE" SR algorithms to piece of work with a wide variety of anime.

Source: https://fancaps.net/anime/picture show.php?/14728493 | Way: B

Source: https://fancaps.net/anime/picture.php?/13365760 | Mode: A

Functioning numbers are obtained using a Vega64 GPU and are tested using UL shader variants. The fast version is for K variants.
Notation that CUDA accelerated SRGANs/Waifu2x using tensor cores can be much faster and shut to realtime (~80ms), simply their large size severely hampers non-CUDA implementations.

v3

The monolithic Anime4K shader is cleaved into modular components, allowing customization for specific types of anime and/or personal taste. What'southward new:

• A complete overhaul of the algorithm(due south) for speed, quality and efficiency.
• Real-time, loftier quality line art CNN upscalers. (half dozen variants)
• Line art deblurring shaders. ("blind deconvolution" and DTD shader)
• Denoising algorithms. (Bilateral Mode and CNN variants)
• Bullheaded resampling antiquity reduction algorithms. (For badly resampled anime.)
• Experimental line darkening and line thinning algorithm. (For perceptual quality. We perceive thinner/darker lines every bit perceptually college quality, fifty-fifty if it might non be the case.)

More than information about each shader (OUTDATED).

Visits

Counting since 2021-09-19T16:02:06Z (ISO 8601)

Projects that utilize Anime4K

• https://github.com/Blinue/Magpie (General-purpose real-time upscaler for whatsoever programme/game running on Windows 10)

Note that the following might exist using an outdated version of Anime4K. There take been meaning quality improvements since v3.

• https://github.com/yeataro/TD-Anime4K (Anime4K for TouchDesigner)
• https://github.com/keijiro/UnityAnime4K (Anime4K for Unity)
• https://github.com/net2cn/Anime4KSharp (Anime4K Re-Implemented in C#)
• https://github.com/andraantariksa/Anime4K-rs (Anime4K Re-Implemented in Rust)
• https://github.com/TianZerL/Anime4KCPP (Anime4K & more algorithms implemented in C++)
• https://github.com/k4yt3x/video2x (Anime Video Upscaling Pipeline)

Acknowledgements

OpenCV	TensorFlow	Keras	Torch	mpv	MPC

Many thanks to the OpenCV, TensorFlow, Keras and Torch groups and contributors. This projection would not have been possible without the being of high quality, open source motorcar learning libraries.

I would also want to specially thank the creators of VDSR and FSRCNN, in addition to the open up source projects waifu2x and FSRCNNX for sparking my interest in creating this project. I am also extending my gratitude to the contributors of mpv and MPC-HC/BE for their efforts on creating excellent media players with endless customization options.
Furthermore, I want to thank the people who contributed to this project in any form, exist it past reporting bugs, submitting suggestions, helping others' issues or submitting code. I will forever concur yous in high regard.

I also wish to limited my sincere gratitude to the people of Université de Montréal, DIRO, LIGUM and MILA for providing so many opportunities to students (including me), providing the necessary infrastructure and fostering an excellent learning environs.

I would also like to thank the greater open source community, in which the assortment of concrete examples and lawmaking were of great assistance.

Finally, but non least, infinite thanks to my family, friends and professors for providing financial, technical, social back up and expertise for my ongoing learning journey during these difficult times. Your help has been beyond description, really.

This list is not final, as the project is far from done. Any future acknowledgements volition exist promptly added.

Source: https://github.com/bloc97/Anime4K

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