| # Comparisons among different anime models | |
| [English](anime_comparisons.md) **|** [简体中文](anime_comparisons_CN.md) | |
| ## 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. Please note that the images | |
| in the table below are the resized and cropped patches from the original images, you can download the original inputs and outputs from [Google Drive](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1bc_Hje1Nqop9NDkUvci2VACSjL7HZMRp?usp=sharing) . | |
| **More natural results, better background restoration** | |
| | Input | waifu2x | Real-CUGAN | RealESRGAN<br>AnimeVideo-v3 | | |
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| **Fewer artifacts, better detailed textures** | |
| | Input | waifu2x | Real-CUGAN | RealESRGAN<br>AnimeVideo-v3 | | |
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| **Other better results** | |
| | Input | waifu2x | Real-CUGAN | RealESRGAN<br>AnimeVideo-v3 | | |
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| ## 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 | |
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| | 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 | |