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VFIformer-WebUI - AI-Based Movie Restoration

Example - Interpolated Frames

Example - GIF to MP4 (frame size X4, frame rate X8)	Example - Original GIF
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/825994/224549158-7df76e49-28ec-4a3c-9b2b-4699729bd84f.mp4

Set Up For Use

1. Get VFIformer working on your local system

• See their repo at https://github.com/dvlab-research/VFIformer
• I run locally with:
  • Anaconda 23.1.0
  • Python 3.10.9
  • Torch 1.13.1
  • Cuda 11.7
  • NVIDIA RTX 3090
  • Windows 11

2. Clone this repo in a separate directory and copy all directories/files on top of your working VFIformer installation

• This code makes no changes to their original code (but borrows some) and causes no conflicts with it
• It shouldn't introduce any additional requirements over what VFIformer, Gradio-App and Real-ESRGAN need

3. If it's set up properly, the following command should write a new file images/image1.png using default settings

python interpolate.py

Alternate Set Up / Development

1. Get VFIformer working on your local system

• See their repo at https://github.com/dvlab-research/VFIformer
• I run locally with:
  • Anaconda 23.1.0
  • Python 3.10.9
  • Torch 1.13.1
  • Cuda 11.7
  • NVIDIA RTX 3090
  • Windows 11

2. Clone this repo to a directory in which you intend to use the app and/or develop on it
3. Copy the following directories from your working VFIformer installation to this directory:

• dataloader
• models
• pretrained_models
• utils

4. If it's set up properly, the following command should write a new file images/image1.png

python interpolate.py

Real-ESRGAN Add-On Set Up

The GIF to MP4 feature uses Real-ESRGAN to clean and upscale frames

1. Get Real-ESRGAN working on your local system

• See their repo at https://github.com/xinntao/Real-ESRGAN

2. Clone their repo to its own directory and follow their instructions for local setup
3. Copy the realesrgan directory to your VFIformer-WebUI directory

• The Real-ESRGAN 4x+ model (65MB) will automatically download on first use

FFmpeg Set Up

A few features rely on FFmpeg being available on the system path

Download FFmpeg

Starting Web UI Application

The application can be started in any of these ways:

• webui.bat
• python webui.py
  • Command line arguments
    • --config_path path path to alternate configuration file, default config.yaml
    • --verbose enables verbose output to the console, default False

Using Web UI

Wiki - Quick Start Guide

All Features

Wiki - Home

Command Line Tools

The core feature have command-line equivalents

Wiki - Command Line Tools

App Configuration

Wiki - App Configuration

Future Ideas

• add Audio tools

My Public Uses of VFIformer

YouTube

• Feb 01 2023 "Fun with AI: De-Ticking a Ticking Clock" https://youtu.be/JhibFQvP7X0
• Jan 28 2023 "Fun with AI: Infinite Slow Motion" https://youtu.be/sKQKuYU-fcQ
• Jan 24 2023 "Fun with AI: Me as a Baby, Restoring 60 year old 8mm film" https://youtu.be/PiLv5u1PYiE

Acknowledgements

Thanks! to the VFIformer folks for their amazing AI frame interpolation tool

• https://github.com/dvlab-research/VFIformer

Thans! to the Real-ESRGAN folks for their wonderful frame restoration/upscaling tool

• https://github.com/xinntao/Real-ESRGAN

Thanks! to the stable-diffusion-webui folks for their great UI, amazing tool, and for inspiring me to learn Gradio

• https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui

Thanks to Gradio for their easy-to-use Web UI building tool and great docs

• https://gradio.app/
• https://github.com/gradio-app/gradio

Royalty-Free Videos used for the examples

• "FunfaIr in Barcelona" https://motionarray.com/stock-video/funfair-in-barcelona-1163645/
• "Batter Misses A Pitch" https://motionarray.com/stock-video/batter-misses-a-pitch-1231021/
• "Bursting A Balloon" https://motionarray.com/stock-video/bursting-a-balloon-253645/