# Swin2SR real-world x4 upscaler in Transformers (Apache-2.0)

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- updated: 2026-10-27T19:49:21.945Z
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caidas/swin2SR-realworld-sr-x4-64-bsrgan-psnr: Swin2SR (Conde et al., arXiv 2209.11345) 4x super-resolution for real-world images, Apache-2.0, Transformers Swin2SRForImageSuperResolution. The classical x2 checkpoint is for clean images.

This Swin2SR checkpoint upscales images 4x and is intended for real-world super-resolution, that is degraded photos rather than clean downsampled ones. Swin2SR (Conde et al., arXiv 2209.11345, first released in mv-lab/swin2sr) is a SwinV2-transformer restoration model; the repository name points to BSRGAN-style degradations and a PSNR-oriented variant, which the card does not explain further.

Use: load it in Hugging Face Transformers as Swin2SRForImageSuperResolution; the card links the Transformers forward example instead of giving code. "inference: false" in the metadata only turns off the hosted widget. Licence: Apache-2.0. For clean 2x upscaling see the classical x2 checkpoint (caidas/swin2SR-classical-sr-x2-64).

Based on the caidas/swin2SR-realworld-sr-x4-64-bsrgan-psnr card pinned to revision bb13f02e45e88d00b6c202b3fbe6a181af144606 and observed on 2026-10-27.
Nothing was run here; the BSRGAN and PSNR reading comes from the repository name, not the card text.
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