Waifu2x-Extension-GUI

Photo/Video/GIF enlargement and Video frame interpolation using machine learning

Supports AMD / Nvidia / Intel GPU

中文 说明文档 | Official telegram channel

Download Latest Stable Build (Windows x64)

Download Latest portable package for Windows x64 PCs with Intel/AMD/Nvidia GPUs.

Download Latest Build: https://github.com/AaronFeng753/Waifu2x-Extension-GUI/releases/latest

Get Premium version on Patreon: https://patreon.com/aaronfeng

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Supported Languages: English, 简体中文, 繁體中文.

Download Beta Build (Windows x64)

The beta build has a faster update cycle than the stable build, which allows you to experience the latest features of the software in advance.

Beta builds are more unstable than the stable builds because the beta builds have not been fully tested before release.

Download the beta build at the releases page: https://github.com/AaronFeng753/Waifu2x-Extension-GUI/releases

What is Waifu2x-Extension-GUI?

Image & GIF & Video Super-Resolution and Video Frame Interpolation using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks.

Key features:

• Multimedia support: Supports processing Image & GIF&APNG & Video at the same time.

• Full image style support: Multiple built-in algorithms, 2D anime, or your daily photos & videos, this software can handle all of them.

• Video frame interpolation: Automatically use AI to interpolate frames after enlarge the video.

• Video Frame Analysis: Analyze video frames to Improve video Quality and Speed Up video processing.

• Great compatibility: Multiple built-in engines, compatible with almost all modern Windows PCs.

• Flexible multi-thread setting: You can adjust the number of threads freely while providing a complete set of settings for each engine, Take advantage of all the capabilities of your PC.
• Multi-GPU support: Multi-GPU support for ALL built-in engines.
• Numerous customizable settings: You can automate your workflow by adjusting the many customizable settings in the software.
• Smart settings: This software can automatically adjust some software settings based on your PC hardware information and the information of the files you want to process.
• Easy-to-use graphical user interface.
• Continual maintenance and updates.

Built-in super-resolution algorithms:
Waifu2x / SRMD / RealSR / Real-ESRGAN / Real-CUGAN / Anime4K
ACNet / RTX Super Resolution

Built-in super-resolution engines:
Waifu2x-caffe / Waifu2x-converter / Waifu2x-ncnn-vulkan
SRMD-ncnn-vulkan / RealSR-ncnn-vulkan / Anime4KCPP / SRMD-CUDA
RealESRGAN-NCNN-Vulkan / Real-CUGAN-ncnn-vulkan / RTX Super Resolution

Built-in Video frame interpolation algorithms:
RIFE / CAIN / DAIN / IFRNet

Built-in Video frame interpolation engines:
rife-ncnn-vulkan / cain-ncnn-vulkan / dain-ncnn-vulkan
IFRNet-ncnn-vulkan

Already been tested on the AMD RX 550, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 and Intel UHD 620.

Samples

Comparison(3D Real-life)(Using RealESRGAN-NCNN-Vulkan Engine)

Photo by Jonatan Pie on Unsplash

Comparison(2D Anime)(Using Waifu2x-NCNN-Vulkan Engine)

Original 2D Anime Image 480x300 (.jpg 93.2 KB):

After 8x magnification, level 3 denoise and compress 3840x2400 (.jpg 525 KB):

(Using Waifu2x-NCNN-Vulkan Engine)

Original GIF 500 x 372 (493 KB):

After 2x magnification, level 2 denoise and gif optimize 1000 x 744 (3.77 MB):

(Using Waifu2x-NCNN-Vulkan Engine)

Github doesn't support online video playback, please check link below:

Video : https://github.com/AaronFeng753/Waifu2x-Extension-GUI/tree/master/Samples/video

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License

Waifu2x-Extension-GUI is free for PERSONAL USE ONLY.

If you wish to use Waifu2x-Extension-GUI commercially, please purchase the Premium version from:

https://www.patreon.com/aaronfeng

Privacy policy

We respect your privacy, so the following is the privacy policy of this software:

1. This software won't upload anything to the internet, so we won't collect any data from you, we don't even have a server.

2. This software will only connect to the internet when checking for new updates and update the QRCode on the Donate tab, which
will download two .ini files and two .jpg files from GitHub and Gitee. (Gitee is a copycat version of GitHub in The
People's Republic of China, you can disable downloading anything from Gitee by enabling [Ban Gitee] in [Additional settings])

In conclusion, we won't collect any data from you.

Credits:

• All donors
• Special thanks to @CAFUCSteven for helping me test the software, report multiple bugs and give me multiple suggestions.
• Special thanks to @MrZihan for create the SRMD-CUDA engine and help me integrated it in the Waifu2x-Extension-GUI.
• Anime4K: https://github.com/bloc97/Anime4K
• Anime4KCPP: https://github.com/TianZerL/Anime4KCPP
• APNG Assembler: https://sourceforge.net/projects/apngasm/
• APNG Disassembler: https://sourceforge.net/projects/apngdis/
• APNG Optimizer: https://sourceforge.net/projects/apng/files/APNG_Optimizer/
• Beautiful Soup: https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/
• cain-ncnn-vulkan: https://github.com/nihui/cain-ncnn-vulkan
• Channel Attention Is All You Need for Video Frame Interpolation: https://github.com/myungsub/CAIN
• DAIN ncnn Vulkan: https://github.com/nihui/dain-ncnn-vulkan
• DAIN (Depth-Aware Video Frame Interpolation): https://github.com/baowenbo/DAIN
• FFmpeg: https://ffmpeg.org/
• FFmpeg Builds - gyan.dev: https://www.gyan.dev/ffmpeg/builds/
• FFmpeg Builds - Zeranoe (This website has ceased operations): https://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/
• Gifsicle: https://www.lcdf.org/gifsicle/
• GIMP: https://www.gimp.org/
• GNU Wget: https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/
• IFRNet: https://github.com/ltkong218/IFRNet
• ifrnet-ncnn-vulkan: https://github.com/nihui/ifrnet-ncnn-vulkan
• ImageMagick: http://www.imagemagick.org/
• ImDisk Toolkit: https://sourceforge.net/projects/imdisk-toolkit/
• NCNN: https://github.com/Tencent/ncnn
• NirCmd: https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.html
• NSIS: https://nsis.sourceforge.io/
• Nvidia: https://www.nvidia.com/
• OpenCV: https://opencv.org/
• Pillow: https://python-pillow.org/
• PyInstaller: https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller
• Python: https://www.python.org/
• QT: https://www.qt.io/
• Real-CUGAN: https://github.com/bilibili/ailab
• realcugan-ncnn-vulkan: https://github.com/nihui/realcugan-ncnn-vulkan
• Real-ESRGAN: https://github.com/xinntao/Real-ESRGAN
• RealSR-ncnn-vulkan: https://github.com/nihui/realsr-ncnn-vulkan
• Real-World Super-Resolution: https://github.com/jixiaozhong/RealSR
• rife-ncnn-vulkan: https://github.com/nihui/rife-ncnn-vulkan
• RIFE Video Frame Interpolation: https://github.com/hzwer/arXiv2020-RIFE
• SoX: http://sox.sourceforge.net/
• SRMD: https://github.com/cszn/SRMD
• SRMD-ncnn-Vulkan: https://github.com/nihui/srmd-ncnn-vulkan
• Super-resolution-SR-CUDA: https://github.com/MrZihan/Super-resolution-SR-CUDA
• Waifu2x: https://github.com/nagadomi/waifu2x
• Waifu2x-caffe: https://github.com/lltcggie/waifu2x-caffe
• Waifu2x-converter: https://github.com/DeadSix27/waifu2x-converter-cpp
• Waifu2x-Extension: https://github.com/AaronFeng753/Waifu2x-Extension
• Waifu2x-ncnn-vulkan: https://github.com/nihui/waifu2x-ncnn-vulkan
• psd2waifu2x配布・サポートページ | 投稿者: HIMAKIKUROGANE
• Icons made by : Freepik & Roundicons & Icongeek26 From Flaticon : https://www.flaticon.com/
• Thanks to @uimee for 繁體中文 translation.
• Thanks to @Nova-Aurora for fixing several errors in the English README.
• Thanks to @Michael18751 for adding a fadeout effect to the notification sound.
• Thanks to @CaptainStabs for fixing several English grammar errors.