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- Publisher (HF namespace)
- eugenesiow
- Library
- Transformers
- License tag
apache-2.0— read the license file in the repo before relying on it- Papers cited
- arXiv:1707.02921, arXiv:2104.07566
- Datasets declared
- eugenesiow/Div2k, eugenesiow/Set5, eugenesiow/Set14, eugenesiow/BSD100, eugenesiow/Urban100
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- 749,992
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- 14
- Model card
- https://huggingface.co/eugenesiow/edsr-base
Use cases
- Upscaling low-resolution photographs for print or display
- Preprocessing satellite or medical images before downstream analysis
- Benchmarking image super-resolution on standard SR test sets
- Research reproducing EDSR baseline results on DIV2K or BSD100
Pros
- Trained and evaluated on five well-established SR benchmark datasets, providing reproducible baselines
- Apache 2.0 license allows unrestricted commercial and research use
- Removes batch normalization as per the original EDSR design, which avoids normalization artifacts
- Integrates with the super-image library for straightforward Python inference
- Arxiv references link to both the original EDSR paper and a follow-up study for methodological transparency
Cons
- Base variant is smaller than EDSR-large, trading reconstruction quality for inference speed
- No pipeline_tag assigned, so auto-discovery in standard Transformers pipelines is not supported
- Performance on out-of-distribution images (medical, satellite) may degrade versus domain-specific SR models
- The super-image library has limited adoption compared to mainstream SR frameworks like BasicSR
- No GPU-optimized quantized variant; large image inference can be slow on CPU