This is a Core ML implementation of waifu2x. The target of this project is to run waifu2x models right on iOS devices even without network. For macOS version please refer to waifu2x-mac.
- XCode 9
- iOS 11
Images with RGB color space works fine. Others should be converted to RGB before processing otherwise output image will be broken.
Alpha channel is scaled using bicubic interpolation. Generally it runs on GPU. It automatically falls back to CPU if image is too large for Metal to process, which is extremely slow. (A bad idea)
This repository includes all the models converted from waifu2x-caffe. If you want to dig into Core ML, it is recommended that you should convert them by yourself.
You can convert pre-trained models to Core ML format and then import them to XCode. The pre-trained model can be obtained from waifu2x-caffe.
You can use the same method described in MobileNet-CoreML. You should not specify any input and output layer in python script.
A working model should have input and output like the following example:
- iPhone6s - waifu2x-ios on iPhone 6s with iOS 11.1
- iPhone8 - waifu2x-ios on iPhone 8 with iOS 11.0
- iPad - waifu2x-ios on iPad Pro 10.5 with iOS 11.1
- PC - waifu2x-caffe on Windows 10 16278 with GTX 960M
All of the tests are running denoise level 2 with scale 2x model on anime-style images from Pixiv.
Image resolution: 600*849
| Device | Time(s) |
|---|---|
| iPhone6s | 6.8 |
| iPhone8 | 4.0 |
| iPad | 2.9 |
| PC | 2.1 |
Image resolution: 3000*3328
| Device | Time(s) |
|---|---|
| iPhone6s | 129.2 |
| iPhone8 | 73.5 |
| iPad | 49.2 |
| PC | 37.5 |
Device: iPad
Image resolution: 3000*3328
| Milestone | Time(s) | RAM usage(GB) |
|---|---|---|
| Before using upconv models | 141.7 | 1.86 |
| After using upconv models | 63.6 | 1.28 |
| After adding pipeline on output | 56.8 | 1.28 |
| After adding pipeline on prediction | 49.2 | 0.38 |
