DeepEnhancer

[djilayeden]

Dear Selur and Dan64,

First of all, thank you both for your feedback and for taking the time to look into this! I really appreciate the attention you’ve given to the test.

That being said, I have to disagree—I find DeepEnhancer to be significantly more effective than Spotless in my tests. The level of detail preservation and artifact reduction is much better.

If you’d like to try it yourself, here are the pre-trained models:
👉 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ViZjRQ9...sp=sharing

Also, Dan64, I wanted to mention that DeepEnhancer can also be used for colorization! Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to get the colorization script working on my side, but I’m sure you’d have no trouble with it. 😆 It looks very promising, and I’d love to hear your thoughts if you manage to test it.

I believe this could be a great addition to Hybrid, bringing even more value to its filtering options. Let me know what you think!

Best

[zspeciman]

Hi djilayeden, here is a short 6 second clip sample of a damaged film footage that I could never clean up. Perhaps its unrepairable. Please process it with DeepEnhancer and let see how well it works.

[Selur]

Problem: Can't get it working in Hybrids portable Python 3.12 environment.
Inside the Vapoursynth folder, I called:

git clone https://github.com/jiangqin567/DeepEnhancer.git

then, I extracted pretrained_models.zip into the folder DeepEnhancer folder.
Since the side didn't mention and dependencies I called:

SET CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0 python Lib\site-packages\DeepEnhancer\test_demo.py

which returned:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "f:\Hybrid\64bit\Vapoursynth\Lib\site-packages\DeepEnhancer\test_demo.py", line 14, in <module>
    from basicsr.data.film_dataset import resize_240_short_side
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'basicsr'

So I installed it ('python -m pip install basicvsr'), called the test_demoy.py again, and got

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "f:\Hybrid\64bit\Vapoursynth\Lib\site-packages\DeepEnhancer\test_demo.py", line 14, in <module>
    from basicsr.data.film_dataset import resize_240_short_side
  File "F:\Hybrid\64bit\Vapoursynth\Lib\site-packages\basicsr\__init__.py", line 3, in <module>
    from .archs import *
  File "F:\Hybrid\64bit\Vapoursynth\Lib\site-packages\basicsr\archs\__init__.py", line 16, in <module>
    _arch_modules = [importlib.import_module(f'basicsr.archs.{file_name}') for file_name in arch_filenames]
                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "importlib\__init__.py", line 90, in import_module
  File "F:\Hybrid\64bit\Vapoursynth\Lib\site-packages\basicsr\archs\basicvsrpp_arch.py", line 7, in <module>
    from basicsr.archs.arch_util import flow_warp
  File "F:\Hybrid\64bit\Vapoursynth\Lib\site-packages\basicsr\archs\arch_util.py", line 6, in <module>
    from distutils.version import LooseVersion
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'

which is a problem since distutils was removed in Python 3.12 which is required for Vapoursynth R70 (upcoming R71 will require 3.13).
(see: https://docs.python.org/3/library/distutils.html)

Cu Selur