Upscale an image with an open source software

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1. Method 1: Max image resolution enhancer

Repository: https://github.com/IBM/MAX-Image-Resolution-Enhancer#1-build-the-model

1.1 Launch the server
command: docker run -it -p 5000:5000 codait/max-image-resolution-enhancer
This create a local webserver on on url http://localhost:5000

Limitation: (Required) An image file (RGB/HWC).
The ideal image size is 500×500 or smaller, and the best results are observed using a PNG image. Images with dimensions over 2000×2000 are not accepted and will result in an error.

2.2 Launch a request

curl –location –request POST ‘localhost:5000/model/predict’ –header ‘Content-Type: multipart/form-data’ –form ‘image=@”/home/g/input.png”‘ > output.png