From ec767200ed5f0a092bed71b1ff6f6a8bdd662a45 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Xintao Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2021 02:07:23 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] update README.md --- README.md | 22 ++++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 34c0058..6f9e67a 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -8,9 +8,11 @@ 1. [Colab Demo](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1sVsoBd9AjckIXThgtZhGrHRfFI6UUYOo) for Real-ESRGAN google colab logo. 2. [Portable Windows executable file](https://github.com/xinntao/Real-ESRGAN/releases). You can find more information [here](#Portable-executable-files). -Real-ESRGAN aims for **Practical Image Restoration**.
+Real-ESRGAN aims at developing **Practical Algorithms for General Image Restoration**.
We extend the powerful ESRGAN to a practical restoration application (namely, Real-ESRGAN), which is trained with pure synthetic data. +:triangular_flag_on_post: The training codes have been released. A detailed guide will be provided later (on July 25th). Note that the codes have a lot of refactoring from our developed codes. So there may be some bugs/performance drops. Welcome to report issues and I wil also retrain the models. + ### :book: Real-ESRGAN: Training Real-World Blind Super-Resolution with Pure Synthetic Data > [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.10833)]   [Project Page]   [Demo]
@@ -22,14 +24,26 @@ We extend the powerful ESRGAN to a practical restoration application (namely, Re

-We provide a pretrained model (*RealESRGAN_x4plus.pth*) with upsampling X4.
+--- + +We have provided a pretrained model (*RealESRGAN_x4plus.pth*) with upsampling X4.
**Note that RealESRGAN may still fail in some cases as the real-world degradations are really too complex.**
Moreover, it **may not** perform well on **human faces, text**, *etc*, which will be optimized later.
---- +Real-ESRGAN will be a long-term supported project (in my current plan :smiley:). It will be continuously updated +in my spare time. -We are cleaning the training codes. It will be finished on 23 or 24, July. +Here is a TODO list in the near future: + +[ ] optimize for human faces +[ ] optimize for texts +[ ] optimize for animation images +[ ] support more scales +[ ] support controllable restoration strength + +If you have any good ideas or demands, please open an issue/discussion to let me know.
+If you have some images that Real-ESRGAN could not well restored, please also open an issue/discussion. I will record it (but I cannot guarantee to resolve it:stuck_out_tongue:). If necessary, I will open a page to specially record these real-world cases that need to be solved, but the current technology is difficult to handle well. ---