With success from Distilling ESRGAN to produce high resolution images in milliseconds, (0.3 seconds to be specific). This application tests the model on the extreme last level. This proof of concept video player takes in normal videos and downscales the frames bicubically and then perform super resolution on the video frames on CPU and displays them in realtime.
Here's a sample.
Video used: Slash's Anastatia Live in Sydney. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC8EmPA6H6g)
$ python3 player.py --file /path/to/video/file \
--saved_model /path/to/saved_modelCheck the issue tracker with "Super Resolution Player" as issue label or click here
Building an online video streamer sending low resolution videos running on Super Resolved video on the client side. Check the experimental folder for the codes.