ESRGAN
Enhanced SRGAN. Champion PIRM Challenge on Perceptual Super-Resolution
ESRGAN stands for Enhanced Super-Resolution Generative Adversarial Network and is a foundational project in the field of deep learning-based image super-resolution. It builds on earlier GAN-based approaches by improving network architecture (e.g., using Residual-in-Residual Dense Blocks), adversarial loss functions, and perceptual loss components to generate higher-fidelity high-resolution images from low-resolution inputs with more realistic textures and details. ESRGAN was originally developed as part of research efforts that won benchmarks such as the PIRM2018 super-resolution challenge, demonstrating that GAN-based techniques can produce visually convincing results that surpass traditional interpolation or earlier deep approaches. ...