Keep the AI model to Standard but try other models if you have very low quality faces (Low Res or Very Compressed). You can scale it and see if you get better results/detail. Besides we are focusing on simply enhancing the quality of the face. We do not need to upscale as the metadata will restore the original size. On the right we can change variables to tune our output. Step 2: Fiddle with Gigapixel AI settings/ProcessĪdd the folder with the face pictures into Gigapixel AI.

Now we can go ahead and process the faces.

This file contains all the DFL landmarks and data for the faceset. This will generate a meta.dat file in the aligned folder. On the set of face pictures, run the bat file in the DFL folder which says 'metadata save'. You may also want to toggle data collection off under Application. Make sure to figure out which setting works best for your hardware. Low is the setting that I've been using and it has worked no problem.

On a RTX 3070 8GB GPU, processing with High resulted in one third memory usage, seemingly not utilize the GPU and use the CPU and be very slow processing with Medium resulted in lower memory usage, utilized the GPU and not the CPU and was faster but was not stable and kept crashing after processing a few pictures in a batch processing with Low resulted in even lower memory usage, utilized the GPU more and was still faster and worked flawlessly. Then immediately be greeted by the allowed memory consumption limit, with vague levels of Low, Medium and High. In the Processing/Save tab, make sure to change the AI Processor from auto to your dedicated GPU(s). Under File>Preferences you can find many settings related to the app and its working. Topaz Gigapixel AI Face Enhancement Showcase:. Topaz Gigapixel AI Site Link:- (Can be found on the internet if you search a tiny bit) Version 6.1.0 introduced the face restoration feature which we can use the enhance the quality of the faces significantly, close to or better than many other solutions like Remini Web and DFDNet, GPEN etc, Note that the enhancement varies from face to face and the other applications may work better for certain type of input faces. This guide helps explain the use of Gigapixel AI solely for enhancing the quality of a given faceset, explaining the various settings and presenting a workflow. Src Enhancement using Topaz Gigapixel AI 6.1.0+

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