The waifu2x on Mac.
The new version is capable of taking advantages of CPU, GPU, and ANE.
- Enlarge videos or images with machine learning on Mac.
- Interpolate frames for videos.
Files and source code could be found in releases.
Note: If mac says the app was damaged / unknown developer, please go to System Preferences > Security & Privacy > General, and click Open Anyway. Show Details.
This app works completely offline and requires no internet connection. Nothing is collected or stored, expect for:
- Your settings stored in its containter.
- Temp images during processing in its containter, the existance would only last for three lines of code, after which it is deleted.
If the app crashes, please choose not to share crash log with Apple.
The waifu2x models where obtained from waifu2x-caffe, and translated to coreML via coremltools.
Other models are:
- dain-ncnn-vulkan
- realsr-ncnn-vulkan
- cain-ncnn-vulkan
- realcugan-ncnn-vulkan
- Real-ESRGAN
- rife-ncnn-vulkan
This app was based on the work of waifu2x-ios. Nearly all the files in the folder "waifu2x-mac" were created by him. However, modifications were done to improve speed.
When processing a standard 1080p image (1920 × 1080) using Waifu2x Caffe, MacBook Pro with the M1 Max chip took only 0.7 seconds.
This app was written with SwiftUI.
- waifu2x-ios for nearly all the algorithms used to enlarge images.
- waifu2x-caffe for all the models.
- stack overflow for all the solutions.
- dain-ncnn-vulkan for dain-ncnn-vulkan.
- realsr-ncnn-vulkan for realsr-ncnn-vulkan.
- cain-ncnn-vulkan for cain-ncnn-vulkan.
- realcugan-ncnn-vulkan for realcugan-ncnn-vulkan.
- Real-ESRGAN for Real-ESRGAN.
- rife-ncnn-vulkan for rife-ncnn-vulkan.