🚩 New Features/Updates

• ✅ Oct 5, 2021. Add ECBSR training and testing codes: ECBSR.

  ACMMM21: Edge-oriented Convolution Block for Real-time Super Resolution on Mobile Devices
  Xindong Zhang, Hui Zeng, Lei Zhang

• ✅ Sep 2, 2021. Add SwinIR training and testing codes: SwinIR by Jingyun Liang. More details are in HOWTOs.md

  ICCVW21: SwinIR: Image Restoration Using Swin Transformer
  Jingyun Liang, Jiezhang Cao, Sun, Guolei Sun, Kai Zhang, Luc Van Gool and Radu Timofte

• ✅ Aug 5, 2021. Add NIQE, which produces the same results as MATLAB (both are 5.7296 for tests/data/baboon.png).
• ✅ July 31, 2021. Add bi-directional video super-resolution codes: BasicVSR and IconVSR.

  CVPR21: BasicVSR: The Search for Essential Components in Video Super-Resolution and Beyond
  Kelvin C.K., Xintao Wang, Ke Yu, Chao Dong, Chen Change Loy

• ✅ July 20, 2021. Add dual-blind face restoration codes: HiFaceGAN codes by Lotayou.
• ✅ Nov 29, 2020. Add ESRGAN and DFDNet colab demo
• ✅ Sep 8, 2020. Add blind face restoration inference codes: DFDNet.

  ECCV20: Blind Face Restoration via Deep Multi-scale Component Dictionaries
  Xiaoming Li, Chaofeng Chen, Shangchen Zhou, Xianhui Lin, Wangmeng Zuo and Lei Zhang

• ✅ Aug 27, 2020. Add StyleGAN2 training and testing codes: StyleGAN2.

  CVPR20: Analyzing and Improving the Image Quality of StyleGAN
  Tero Karras, Samuli Laine, Miika Aittala, Janne Hellsten, Jaakko Lehtinen and Timo Aila

• ✅ Aug 19, 2020. A brand-new BasicSR v1.0.0 online.