PiSA-SR — Image Upscaler AI Model

PiSA-SR upscales images 2× or 4× and rebuilds fine detail, with pixel-level and semantic enhancement on separate controls — the sharpest of the on-device upscalers, and the slowest of them: about 50 seconds.

Details

  • CategoryImage Upscaler
  • Year2025
  • LicenseApache-2.0

Compliance & Provenance

  • ProviderOpen-source · Specialized
  • EU AI Act RiskMinimal Risk
  • Art. 50 TransparencyNot applicable

Inputs & Outputs

  • ImageInput · image

    Low-resolution source image

  • ImageOutput · image

    Upscaled high-resolution image

Tags

  • super-resolution
  • upscale
  • image-enhancement
  • sharpen
  • 4x
  • adjustable
  • gpu-heavy
  • slow-on-large-images

Alternatives in Image Upscaling

  • SMFANet+

    Fast lightweight image upscaler (2x/3x/4x). 0.1-3s.

  • Swin2SR

    Balanced image upscaler (2x/4x) — Swin Transformer V2. 10-30s.

  • SwinIR

    Image upscaler with widest scale range (2x/3x/4x/8x). 10-30s.

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