[Question] About reproducing same performance of Upconv7 about waifu2x-chainer HOT 3 CLOSED

Which do you want to upscale anime-style images or photo-style images?
If you want to upscale anime-style images, you should train models with anime-style images dataset and vice versa.
In my understanding, DIV2K dataset is photo-style images dataset that is not suitable for traininig anime-style models. It may be possible to train anime-style models with photo-style images if you tune hyper-parameters but it's so hard.

My dataset is self crawled 6000 high-resolution-anime-style images.

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Hi @tsurumeso,

Thanks for your help and apply sincerely ^^

I want to upscale photo-style images. I found that using anime-style images for training can get sharper line for upscaled images on visualization.

I use the danbooru anime-dataset and random pick about 6000 for training.
But the output results exist some contour along the shape and not great as yours.
Could you give me some tips to gather the images for training & fine-tuning?

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Images for pretraining should be high-resolution.
Images for fine-tuning should be high-resolution AND noise-free.
Getting high resolution images is simple. All you need is downloading only images that are larger than a certain size. For example, the images larger than 1000x1000 pixels and so on.
You could get noise-free image by downloading only .png images. After that you need to manually select true PNG images because the file content may be JPEG even if the extension is .png.

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