This is an experimental release of WSJ issue 2022-02 upscaled using my own ESRGAN model trained for 860k iterations. The model is solely focused on B/W drawings, so all of the color pages, informational pages, adverts, and other misc pages between chapters were left untouched in this release. There still are some kinks that need working out and edge cases I might have not thought of yet, but the model has reached a point where in the general case the result is as good as it could ever be, so this seemed like a good point to show it off. I've also been working on a model for color pages but it's far more work to get passable results better than the blurry mess that waifu2x produces. Feel free to give feedback or say anything else :)
The source pages are 959x1400 JPEGs and this release is 2532x3696 PNG
[Comparison with source](https://slow.pics/c/B7ETmBQl)
[Direct Download](https://mega.nz/file/BA1FwITb#PrvJHd_1qcStSKY0Rw0tsWaT4p0PZ2-rYUiVvBZ77-0)
This looks so good! The details are really well preserved for an upscale with a rather "low" quality source.
I don't know if this will help to improve your model, but Bilibili (official Chinese publisher) has some WSJ series in simul-release in 1644x2400
And as always thank you for your hard work, hopefully this will become a regular release one day!
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