AI video upscaling / super-resolution group test, comparing AVCLabs Video Enhancer AI, Topaz Labs Video Enhance AI, and Waifu2x-Extension-GUI. Note that I have no association with the developers of any of these packages, but that you can learn more about and obtain them at the following links:
AVCLabs Video Enhancer AI:
https://www.avclabs.com
Topaz Labs Video Enhance AI:
https://www.topazlabs.com/video-enhance-ai
Waifu2x-Extension-GUI:
https://github.com/AaronFeng753/Waifu2x-Extension-GUI
You can also learn about the computer science behind super-resolution machine learning in these articles:
Anil Chandra Naidu Matcha (2020) 'Image Super-Resolution: A Comprehensive Review', Paperspace Blog, available at: https://blog.paperspace.com/image-super-resolution/
Jonathan Ho et al (2021) 'High Fidelity Image Generation Using Diffusion Models', Google AI Blog, available at: https://ai.googleblog.com/2021/07/high-fidelity-image-generation-using.html
Yash Khandelwal (2021) 'Deep Learning for Image Super-Resolution', Analytics Vidhya, available at: https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2021/05/deep-learning-for-image-super-resolution/
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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:48 Contenders
03:16 AVCLabs Video Enhancer AI
06:55 Topaz Labs Video Enhance AI
10:08 Waifu2x-Extension-GUI
14:20 Which is Best?
16:43 AI in Action (wrap)
#AI #Upscale #Super-Resolution #ExplainingComputers
How long will it take to upscale 10 minutes of VHS video to 1080? what if I upscale it to 4K.
@David-fj5lz Says:
Wa
@mihailvormittag6211 Says:
👍
@meditations.acepe. Says:
Waifu is Wonderful!
@AugustusOmega Says:
Dont waste time with WAFU its an imperceptible joke that takes an hour to do 5 seconds of footage and literally upscales the bad quality leaving you with a faulty GPU it cost me 2 days of work figuring out why my separate video editor wont export 3 days of hard work, I nearly gave up entirely, I thought Norad was in on the conspiracy and as a last ditch I unticked "use GPU render" and the damn thing exported my video and Im certain it has to do with that WAIFU piece of crap I downloaded which asked me to change a GPU setting. I have had a harrowing 2 days.
@ganeshgunjal9073 Says:
If you had used "3d ultra quality" on waifu2x
You might've got better video upscale than avc.
@michaelewaski780 Says:
Thanks!
@MWcrazyhorse Says:
They require 8gb Vram?
Does this mean a 6GB card won't run AT ALL?
Or will it just be much slower?
@backinthegame34 Says:
The final file size for topaz was much smaller than avc.
@techstormster Says:
The product AVCLabs makes looks fake. I can tell it's an AI enhanced Video. The others not so much, and Topaz retained the most realism.
@richh650 Says:
These are nice but I see a VERY LONG render processing times for most PCs as any video not extremely short could take days to render.
@KiwiClawDHA Says:
Imma try the Waifu. Imma either do 15% 1080 or 1440. Should look amazing as I upscale videos.
@anosvoldigod2943 Says:
Gpu 1650
Fps upto 120
Cpu ryzen 7 4800h
Takes more than an hour to convert 1080video 😭
Ram 8 will soon upgrade to 24gb
I have chosen the cpu as the processor is my decision correct or not??
PS: ignore my poor english and yes I am using the free trial to test it..
@konasteph Says:
I know we are all after video processing, I have never done it, nevertheless, I see the use for it ...totally great. But let us not forget: this butterfly is not a "red admiral" or "admiral" etc. it is a Peacock Butterfly, Inachis io. If we decide to be very precise about one subject, namely, video processing, I cannot see why another subject area should be treated "wishy washy" or "good enough", No I want Precision all around.
@dzulrashdi6689 Says:
So I can render animation low resolution and up scale it to HD. 😱
@DSHolmstrom Says:
I bought and used Topaz as a tinkering amateur and really appreciate knowing what other options have become viable in the past few years. TYVM!
@Mike-nf6nf Says:
We have the same GPU. I just put it into my new Ryzen 5950X build.
@mfatihy70 Says:
Nice comparison but i think it woud be better if you added 1 or 2 more softwares.
@aloeisthestuff9622 Says:
Dont know why you keep removing my posts. Waifu contains a TROJAN !
@philip_hofmann Says:
Thank you for the comparison :) Something I would be interested to see is how Waifu2x-Extension-GUI would fare in this comparison if it were set to the "3D Real-life - Enlarge only - Highest Quality(Slow)" preset. This comparison feels a little bit unfair to me since (and I do not understand why) AVCLabs is set to the 'Ultra' Quality setting but for Waifu2x-Extension-GUI the lowest quality preset (fast) gets chosen for the comparison. I know it would use the Real-ESRGAN Engine in the Highest Quality Preset but am not sure which one gets chosen in the Fast Preset, would need to check later.
@JanVaskoSG Says:
thanks bro it's really help
@iCach0 Says:
I think AVCLabs is the worst looking one. Look at the antennae and the reflections on the wings. The background is also completely broken. Too aggressive. Waifu2x was the best by far, then Topaz and AVCLabs dead last.
@enghemo27 Says:
شكرًا
@Alexrocks1253 Says:
I think after 8K which is called Full Ultra HD (jeez they keep coming up with rediculous names), there will be Extreme HD, where a pixel is so small where you can't even see it with the eye against the screen. I feel that anything above 4K really is overkill, except maybe in the virtual reality space with very high pixel densities and a lens magnifying them up.
@smile768 Says:
This is great. I didn't know about these packages.
@stephenkeever6029 Says:
Really glad you made this comparison video! I have been considering image enhancement software for old recordings incorporated into new videos but I was skeptical on how well they actually worked. Also thank you for including programs that work on a Mac.
@vmiki888 Says:
This waifu app is pretty good, thanks for showing it in here.
@endoflevelboss Says:
How can you be as old as you are and mispronounce basic words like Topaz? 🙄
@thefamousdjx Says:
Wow 1 hour processing for just 10seconds of video..
@More_Row Says:
I can't see any difference in any of your comparisons lol.
@tonykeltsflorida Says:
I wonder how long it will be before someone makes a Linux AI video upscaling program
@weseehowcommiegoogleis3770 Says:
Tried the Waifu program, Chinese TROJAN ! This thing admits to being a back door Nasty.
@IndieAuthorX Says:
avclabs seems way too smoothed.
@JanVaskoSG Says:
Dude, this is the only video that works. Thanks for posting!
@slivnik Says:
nVidia Shield claims to do some kind of AI upscaling in real time.
@dang48 Says:
Very informative as always.
@bm5906 Says:
I would be very interested in this information for a linux platform. I would even change my flavor of linux for a good solution.
@KTHKUHNKK Says:
I just sent you a thanks for $ 2.00
I hope you received it.
Keith
@KTHKUHNKK Says:
Thanks!
@CineSoar Says:
Did I understand 58 minutes, for a 10 second clip? 6 hours per minute of upscaling? 15 days, per hour?
@georgeh6856 Says:
Very nice comparison. It would be worthwhile, although take a lot more time and effort, to take an original video with two different cameras at the same time, one at low res and one at the higher res. Then compare the upscaled low-res video with the original high-res one.
@sparks1943 Says:
As always informative and the result of a great deal of work.
By the way that's not a Red Admiral, it's a Peacock Butterfly😀
Paul.
@KTHKUHNKK Says:
Chris would you please answer a question for me. I have a drone that I fly. I'm shooting at 1980x1020
12 fps
The video right off the card looks excellent.
Once I loaded up until YouTube it's pixelated.
I noticed it mainly when I was flying over treetops. I have been shooting on autofocus.
Do you suppose if I put it on manual focus or Infinity it would lessen the pixelation.?
Thanks. Keith
I just don't understand why it's clear right off the SD card, but once it's in the editor and pushed out on the YouTube as an mp4 I'm always getting this big time pixelation I noticed it mainly on my big screen not so much a phone.
@stephenrichards5386 Says:
New OKdo ROCK 4 SE SBC
@importon Says:
you should have chosen low quality in topaz. I would have turned out much better
@olebak0 Says:
Greetings! Here I am, back again, with another comment 🙂 Thanks for this great video. I tried some of the upscaling AI tools on some old webcam videos that my kids shot of themselves many years ago in 640x480 at 15fps. The result is really decent, not only upscaled, but also noise reduced. Amazing!
@Ibrahimdude Says:
My 1st Super Thanks.
have a wonderful day Chris :)
@marcsmithsonian9773 Says:
So, instead of razor sharp image we will get Mr. Scissors sharp... a new quality..
@SpaceMidget Says:
Worth noting that in Topaz, Artimis Low, Medium and High, do not mean the quality of the output, but the quality of the input video. So, for your 360p video you should have used Low or Medium. The difference is notable.
@ktvx.94 Says:
Thank you so much for this video! I tried waifu a while ago and got pretty bad results, so at least this gives me hope that the paid alternatives aren't necessarily much better and that with more tweaking I could do better. I'd like to point out that AVC makes parts of the image look like they're hand-painted, which is very visible in the white spot of the wing. Waifu did that to the video I tried and AVC seems to do it even more.
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