waifu2x

Waifu2x is a well-known image super-resolution neural network for anime-style arts.

Link:

• (stable) https://github.com/AmusementClub/vs-mlrt/releases/download/model-20211209/waifu2x_v3.7z
• (swin_unet) https://github.com/AmusementClub/vs-mlrt/releases/download/external-models/waifu2x_swin_unet_v3.7z

Models

Includes all known publicly available waifu2x models:

• anime_style_art: requires pre-scaled input for the scaled2.0x variant
  • noise1 noise2 noise3 scale2.0x
• anime_style_art_rgb: requires pre-scaled input for the scale2.0x variant
  • noise0 noise1 noise2 noise3 scale2.0x
• photo: requires pre-scaled input for the scale2.0x variant
  • noise0 noise1 noise2 noise3 scale2.0x
• ukbench: requires pre-scaled input
  • scale2.0x
• upconv_7_anime_style_art_rgb
  • scale2.0x noise3_scale2.0x noise2_scale2.0x noise1_scale2.0x noise0_scale2.0x
• upconv_7_photo
  • scale2.0x noise0_scale2.0x noise1_scale2.0x noise2_scale2.0x noise3_scale2.0x
• cunet: tile size (block_w and block_h) must be multiples of 4.
  • noise0 noise1 noise2 noise3
  • scale2.0x
  • noise0_scale2.0x noise1_scale2.0x noise2_scale2.0x noise3_scale2.0x
• upresnet10
  • scale2.0x
  • noise0_scale2.0x noise1_scale2.0x noise2_scale2.0x noise3_scale2.0x

vsmlrt.py wrapper Usage

In order to simplify usage, we provided a Python wrapper module vsmlrt that provides full functionality of waifu2x caffe but with a more Pythonic interface:

from vsmlrt import Waifu2x, Waifu2xModel, Backend

src = core.std.BlankClip(format=vs.RGBS)

# backend could be:
#  - CPU Backend.OV_CPU(): the recommended CPU backend; generally faster than ORT-CPU.
#  - CPU Backend.ORT_CPU(num_streams=1, verbosity=2): vs-ort cpu backend.
#  - GPU Backend.ORT_CUDA(device_id=0, cudnn_benchmark=True, num_streams=1, verbosity=2)
#     - use device_id to select device
#     - set cudnn_benchmark=False to reduce script reload latency when debugging, but with slight throughput performance penalty.
#  - GPU Backend.TRT(fp16=True, device_id=0, num_streams=1): TensorRT runtime, the fastest NV GPU runtime.
flt = Waifu2x(src, noise=-1, scale=2, model=Waifu2xModel.upconv_7_anime_style_art_rgb, backend=Backend.ORT_CUDA())

Raw Model Usage

This section is mostly for reference purposes as the suggested way is to use the vsmlrt.py.

src = core.std.BlankClip(width=1920, height=1080, format=vs.RGBS)
flt = core.ov.Model(src, "upconv_7_anime_style_art_rgb_scale2.0x.onnx")

anime_style_art, anime_style_art_rgb, photo, ukbench models do not include builtin upscaling. Therefore, you need to upscale 2x using Catmull-Rom (bicubic(b=0, c=0.5)) before feeding the image to the models:

src = core.std.BlankClip(width=1920, height=1080, format=vs.RGBS)
flt = core.ov.Model(src.fmtc.resample(scale=2, kernel="bicubic", a1=0, a2=0.5), "anime_style_art_rgb_scale2.0x.onnx")

Notes

• cunet networks work best when the tile size (block_w/block_h) is in range 60 - 150 and multiples of 4.

Benchmarking

Measurements: FPS / Device Memory (MB)

Device memory:

• CPU: private memory including VapourSynth
• GPU: device memory including context

RTX 3090

Software: VapourSynth R57, Windows 10 LTSC 2021, Graphics Driver 511.23.

Input size: 1920x1080

Backends

1. vs-mlrt v6
2. vapoursynth-waifu2x-ncnn-vulkan r4
3. vs-mlrt v8 (driver 511.79)

Performance

FP32

Model	[1] ort-cuda	[1] trt	[2] vulkan (540p patch)	[3] ort-cuda	[3] trt	[3] trt (no tf32)
upconv7	6.12 / 6592	7.22 / 5694	2.83 / 10578	7.24 / 6408	7.99 / 5761	7.86 / 5785
upresnet10	4.72 / 5820	N/A	N/A	5.79 / 5634	N/A	N/A
cunet	2.70 / 18624	N/A	0.71 / 15082	3.28 / 18435	N/A	N/A

FP16

Model	[1] ort-cuda	[1] trt	[1] trt (2 streams)	[2] vulkan	[3] ort-cuda	[3] trt	[3] trt (2 streams)
upconv7	7.64 / 6204	13.4 / 4652	25.4 / 7852	4.20 / 20750	10.6 / 5764	16.2 / 2385	30.1 / 4096
upresnet10	6.38 / 5818	N/A	N/A	N/A	8.15 / 5632	N/A	N/A
cunet	3.55 / 10172	N/A	N/A	0.91 / 7696 (540p patch)	4.53 / 9983	N/A	N/A

RTX 2080 Ti

Software: VapourSynth R57, Windows 10 LTSC 2021, Graphics Driver 511.23.

Input size: 1920x1080

Backends

1. vs-mlrt v6
2. VapourSynth-Waifu2x-caffe r14
3. vapoursynth-waifu2x-ncnn-vulkan r4

Performance

FP32

Model	[1] ort-cuda	[1] trt	[2] caffe (540p patch)	[3] vulkan (540p patch)
upconv7	4.36 / 5922	4.73 / 5072	1.08 / 3159	1.40 / 10568
upresnet10	3.31 / 5150	N/A	1.03 / 7280	N/A
cunet	1.77 / 5170 (540p patch)	N/A	0.73 / 6957 (360p patch)	0.60 / 6992 (360p patch)

FP16

Model	[1] ort-cuda	[1] trt	[1] trt (2 streams)	[3] vulkan (540p patch)
upconv7	5.84 / 5278	11.9 / 3055	19.2 / 5263	2.60 / 5438
upresnet10	5.14 / 5148	N/A	N/A	N/A
cunet	1.64 / 9502	N/A	N/A	0.88 / 7686

Tesla V100

Software: VapourSynth R57, Windows Server 2019, Graphics Driver 511.23.

Input size: 1920x1080

Backends

1. vs-mlrt v6
2. VapourSynth-Waifu2x-caffe r14
3. vapoursynth-waifu2x-ncnn-vulkan r4, Graphics Driver 471.68

Performance

FP32

Model	[1] ort-cuda	[1] trt	[1] trt (2 streams)	[2] caffe (540p patch)	[3] vulkan (540p patch)
upconv7	5.98 / 5065	6.60 / 5033	8.43 / 9253	1.63 / 3248	1.67 / 11197
upresnet10	4.36 / 5061	N/A	N/A	1.54 / 7232	N/A
cunet	2.58 / 9155	N/A	N/A	1.11 / 11657	0.53 / 15705

FP16

Model	[1] ort-cuda	[1] trt	[1] trt (2 streams)	[3] vulkan
upconv7	10.4 / 5189	13.8 / 3041	26.2 / 5253	3.97 / 21369
upresnet10	6.43 / 5059	N/A	N/A	N/A
cunet	4.10 / 9535	N/A	N/A	0.86 / 29848

Tesla A10

Software: VapourSynth R57, Windows Server 2019, Graphics Driver 511.23, lock the GPU clocks at max frequency.

Input size: 1920x1080

Backends

1. vs-mlrt v6
2. vapoursynth-waifu2x-ncnn-vulkan r4, Graphics Driver 471.68

Performance

FP32

Model	[1] ort-cuda	[1] trt	[1] trt (2 streams)	[2] vulkan (540p patch)
upconv7	6.94 / 9765	7.83 / 5511	8.61 / 9731	1.63 / 10892
upresnet10	3.90 / 5665	N/A	N/A	N/A
cunet	2.20 / 18469	N/A	N/A	0.53 / 15397

FP16

Model	[1] ort-cuda	[1] trt	[1] trt (2 streams)	[2] vulkan
upconv7	9.66 / 6049	16.1 / 3501	19.9 / 5701	3.03 / 21075
upresnet10	6.53 / 5663	N/A	N/A	N/A
cunet	3.26 / 10017	N/A	N/A	0.78 / 8011 (540p patch)

Tesla A10G

Software: VapourSynth R58, Windows Server 2022, Graphics Driver 511.65, lock the GPU clocks at max frequency.

Input size: 1920x1080

Backends

1. vs-mlrt v8

Performance

FP32

Model	[1] trt
upconv7	7.20 / 5668

FP16

Model	[1] trt	[1] trt (2 streams)
upconv7	16.4 / 2255	22.2 / 3981

Tesla A100 (PCIe, 40 GB)

Software: VapourSynth R57, Windows Server 2019, Graphics Driver 511.23.

Input size: 1920x1080

Backends

1. vs-mlrt v6

Performance

FP32

Model	[1] ort-cuda	[1] trt	[1] trt (2 streams)
upconv7	17.3 / 9827	20.0 / 5713	27.2 / 10051
upresnet10	N/A	N/A	N/A
cunet	N/A	N/A	N/A

FP16

Model	[1] ort-cuda	[1] trt	[1] trt (2 streams)
upconv7	18.3 / 6111	32.8 / 4539	57.3 / 7719
upresnet10	N/A	N/A	N/A
cunet	N/A	N/A	N/A

Tesla A100 (SXM4, 80 GB)

Software: VapourSynth R57-A4, Windows Server 2022, Graphics Driver 516.94.

Input size: 1920x1080

Backends

1. vs-mlrt v9

Performance

FP16

Model	[1] trt	[1] trt (2 streams)
upconv7	30.4 / 2359	57.4 / 4037
cunet	19.4 / 4647	26.9 / 8558

Icelake Server

Hardware: Xeon Icelake Server 32C64T @2.90 GHz

Software: VapourSynth R57, Windows Server 2019.

Input size: 1920x1080

Backends

1. vs-mlrt v6
2. VapourSynth-Waifu2x-w2xc r8

Performance

FP32

Model	[1] ov-cpu	[2] w2xc
upconv7	1.22 / 18750	N/A
upresnet10	1.40 / 18278	N/A
cunet	0.65 / 22447	N/A
anime rgb	0.69 / 34619	0.26 / 7895

EPYC Milan

Hardware: EPYC Milan 32C64T @2.55 GHz

Software: VapourSynth R57, Windows Server 2019.

Input size: 1920x1080

Backends

1. vs-mlrt v6
2. VapourSynth-Waifu2x-w2xc r8

Performance

FP32

Model	[1] ov-cpu	[2] w2xc
upconv7	0.36 / 19583	N/A
upresnet10	0.35 / 18694	N/A
cunet	0.20 / 21644	N/A
anime rgb	0.20 / 34619	0.28 / 5398