QualityScaler - image/video deeplearning upscaling for any GPU

Citations. ❤

https://80.lv/articles/80-level-digest-great-ai-powered-tools-for-upscaling-images/

https://timesavervfx.com/ai-upscale/

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https://jangystudio.itch.io/qualityscaler

Credits.

BSRGAN - https://github.com/cszn/BSRGAN | https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.14006

How is made. 🛠

QualityScaler is completely written in Python, from backend to frontend. External packages are:

• AI -> Pytorch-directml
• GUI -> Tkinter / Tkdnd / Sv_ttk
• Image/video -> OpenCV / Moviepy
• Packaging -> Pyinstaller
• Miscellaneous -> Pywin32 / Win32mica / Image_slicer

Installation. 👨‍💻

Prerequisites:

Visual C++: https://www.techpowerup.com/download/visual-c-redistributable-runtime-package-all-in-one/

DirectX runtime: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8109

Installation:

1. download the QualityScaler release .zip
2. unzip using 7zip or similar
3. execute QualityScaler.exe in the directory

Requirements. 🤓

• Windows 11 / Windows 10
• RAM >= 8Gb
• Directx12 compatible GPU:
  • any AMD >= Radeon HD 7000 series
  • any Intel HD Integrated >= 4th-gen core
  • any NVIDIA >= GTX 600 series
• CPU [works without GPU, but is very slow]

My testing PC.

• Windows 10 ReviOS
• CPU Ryzen 5600G
• RAM 16Gb
• GPU Nvidia 1660
• STORAGE 1 Sata 120Gb SSD, 1 NVME 500Gb SSD

Features.

• Easy to use GUI
• Image/list of images upscale
• Video upscale
• Drag&drop files [image/multiple images/video]
• Automatic image tiling and merging to avoid gpu VRAM limitation
• Resize image/video before upscaling
• Cpu and Gpu backend
• Compatible images - png, jpeg, bmp, webp, tif
• Compatible video - mp4, wemb, gif, mkv, flv, avi, mov, qt

Next steps. 🤫

• Switch to Pytorch-directml to support all Directx12 compatible gpu (AMD, Intel, Nvidia)
• New GUI with Windows 11 style
• Optimizing image/frame resize and frames extraction
• Include audio for upscaled video
• Update libraries
  • Python 3.10 (expecting ~10% more performance)
  • Python 3.11 (expecting ~30% more performance)

Known bugs.

• Windows10 - the app starts with white colored navbar instead of dark
• Upscaling multiple images doesn't free GPU Vram, so the it is very likely that the process will fail when the gpu memory fills up
• Filenames with non-latin symbols (for example kangy, cyrillic etc.) not supported - [Temp solution] rename files like "image" or "video"
• When running QualityScaler as Administrator, drag&drop is not working
• Some user reported that QualityScaler does not work correctly, returning the message 'Errore while upscaling'

Some Example.