Real-ESRGAN/docs/anime_comparisons.md

# Comparisons among different anime models

## 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](https://github.com/nihui/waifu2x-ncnn-vulkan) with the hyperparameters: `tile=0`, `noiselevel=2`

- [Real-CUGAN](https://github.com/bilibili/ailab/tree/main/Real-CUGAN):
  we use the [20220227](https://github.com/bilibili/ailab/releases/tag/Real-CUGAN-add-faster-low-memory-mode) version, the hyperparameters are: `cache_mode=0`, `tile=0`, `alpha=1`.
- our RealESRGAN-AnimeVideo-v3

## Results

You may need to **zoom in** for comparing details, or **click the image** to see in the full size.

**More natural results, better background restoration**
| Input | waifu2x | Real-CUGAN | RealESRGAN<br>AnimeVideo-v3 |
| :---: | :---:        |     :---:      |  :---:      |
|![157083983-bec52c67-9a5e-4eed-afef-01fe6cd2af85_patch](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/11482921/164452769-5d8cb4f8-1708-42d2-b941-f44a6f136feb.png) | ![](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/11482921/164452767-c825cdec-f721-4ff1-aef1-fec41f146c4c.png) | ![](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/11482921/164452755-3be50895-e3d4-432d-a7b9-9085c2a8e771.png) | ![](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/11482921/164452771-be300656-379a-4323-a755-df8025a8c451.png) |
|![a0010_patch](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/11482921/164454047-22eeb493-3fa9-4142-9fc2-6f2a1c074cd5.png) | ![](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/11482921/164454046-d5e79f8f-00a0-4b55-bc39-295d0d69747a.png) | ![](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/11482921/164454040-87886b11-9d08-48bd-862f-0d4aed72eb19.png) | ![](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/11482921/164454055-73dc9f02-286e-4d5c-8f70-c13742e08f42.png) |
|![00000044_patch](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/11482921/164451232-bacf64fc-e55a-44db-afbb-6b31ab0f8973.png) | ![](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/11482921/164451318-f309b61a-75b8-4b74-b5f3-595725f1cf0b.png) | ![](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/11482921/164451348-994f8a35-adbe-4a4b-9c61-feaa294af06a.png) | ![](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/11482921/164451361-9b7d376e-6f75-4648-b752-542b44845d1c.png) |

**Fewer artifacts, better detailed textures**
| Input | waifu2x | Real-CUGAN | RealESRGAN<br>AnimeVideo-v3 |
| :---: | :---:        |     :---:      |  :---:      |
|![00000053_patch](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/11482921/164448411-148a7e5c-cfcd-4504-8bc7-e318eb883bb6.png) | ![](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/11482921/164448633-dfc15224-b6d2-4403-a3c9-4bb819979364.png) | ![](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/11482921/164448771-0d359509-5293-4d4c-8e3c-86a2a314ea88.png) | ![](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/11482921/164448848-1a4ff99e-075b-4458-9db7-2c89e8160aa0.png) |
|![Disney_v4_22_018514_s2_patch](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/11482921/164451898-83311cdf-bd3e-450f-b9f6-34d7fea3ab79.png) | ![](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/11482921/164451894-6c56521c-6561-40d6-a3a5-8dde2c167b8a.png) | ![](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/11482921/164451888-af9b47e3-39dc-4f3e-b0d7-d372d8191e2a.png) | ![](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/11482921/164451901-31ca4dd4-9847-4baa-8cde-ad50f4053dcf.png) |
|![Japan_v2_0_007261_s2_patch](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/11482921/164454578-73c77392-77de-49c5-b03c-c36631723192.png) | ![](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/11482921/164454574-b1ede5f0-4520-4eaa-8f59-086751a34e62.png) | ![](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/11482921/164454567-4cb3fdd8-6a2d-4016-85b2-a305a8ff80e4.png) | ![](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/11482921/164454583-7f243f20-eca3-4500-ac43-eb058a4a101a.png) |
|![huluxiongdi_2_patch](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/11482921/164453482-0726c842-337e-40ec-bf6c-f902ee956a8b.png) | ![](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/11482921/164453480-71d5e091-5bfa-4c77-9c57-4e37f66ca0a3.png) | ![](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/11482921/164453468-c295d3c9-3661-45f0-9ecd-406a1877f76e.png) | ![](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/11482921/164453486-3091887c-587c-450e-b6fe-905cb518d57e.png) |

**Other better results**
| Input | waifu2x | Real-CUGAN | RealESRGAN<br>AnimeVideo-v3 |
| :---: | :---:        |     :---:      |  :---:      |
|![Japan_v2_1_128525_s1_patch](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/11482921/164454933-67697f7c-b6ef-47dc-bfca-822a78af8acf.png) | ![](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/11482921/164454931-9450de7c-f0b3-4638-9c1e-0668e0c41ef0.png) | ![](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/11482921/164454926-ed746976-786d-41c5-8a83-7693cd774c3a.png) | ![](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/11482921/164454936-8abdf0f0-fb30-40eb-8281-3b46c0bcb9ae.png) |
|![tianshuqitan_2_patch](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/11482921/164456948-807c1476-90b6-4507-81da-cb986d01600c.png) | ![](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/11482921/164456943-25e89de9-d7e5-4f61-a2e1-96786af6ae9e.png) | ![](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/11482921/164456954-b468c447-59f5-4594-9693-3683e44ba3e6.png) | ![](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/11482921/164456957-640f910c-3b04-407c-ac20-044d72e19735.png) |
|![00000051_patch](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/11482921/164456044-e9a6b3fa-b24e-4eb7-acf9-1f7746551b1e.png) ![00000051_patch](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/11482921/164456421-b67245b0-767d-4250-9105-80bbe507ecfc.png) | ![](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/11482921/164456040-85763cf2-cb28-4ba3-abb6-1dbb48c55713.png) ![](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/11482921/164456419-59cf342e-bc1e-4044-868c-e1090abad313.png) | ![](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/11482921/164456031-4244bb7b-8649-4e01-86f4-40c2099c5afd.png) ![](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/11482921/164456411-b6afcbe9-c054-448d-a6df-96d3ba3047f8.png) | ![](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/11482921/164456035-12e270be-fd52-46d4-b18a-3d3b680731fe.png) ![](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/11482921/164456417-dcaa8b62-f497-427d-b2d2-f390f1200fb9.png) |
|![00000099_patch](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/11482921/164455312-6411b6e1-5823-4131-a4b0-a6be8a9ae89f.png) | ![](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/11482921/164455310-f2b99646-3a22-47a4-805b-dc451ac86ddb.png) | ![](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/11482921/164455294-35471b42-2826-4451-b7ec-6de01344954c.png) | ![](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/11482921/164455305-fa4c9758-564a-4081-8b4e-f11057a0404d.png) |
|![00000016_patch](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/11482921/164455672-447353c9-2da2-4fcb-ba4a-7dd6b94c19c1.png) | ![](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/11482921/164455669-df384631-baaa-42f8-9150-40f658471558.png) | ![](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/11482921/164455657-68006bf0-138d-4981-aaca-8aa927d2f78a.png) | ![](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/11482921/164455664-0342b93e-a62a-4b36-a90e-7118f3f1e45d.png) |

## 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

- [ ] TODO