Real-ESRGAN-General-x4v3 Example

This document describes how to use the QAI AppBuilder Python API to run inference with the Real-ESRGAN-General-x4v3 image super-resolution model on Qualcomm® Hexagon™ Processor (NPU).

Supported Devices

Device	SoC
Dragon Q6A	QCS6490
Dragon Q8B	SC8280XP
Fogwise® AIRbox Q900	QCS9075

Install QAI AppBuilder

tip

1. Please install QAI AppBuilder according to QAI AppBuilder Installation Guide.

2. Please configure ADSP environment variables according to Create ADSP Environment Variables.

Run the Example

Install Dependencies

Device

pip3 install requests tqdm qai-hub py3_wget opencv-python torch torchvision

Run the Script

• Navigate to the example directory

QCS6490

Device

cd ai-engine-direct-helper/samples/linux/python

SC8280XP

Device

cd ai-engine-direct-helper/samples/linux/python

QCS9075

Device

cd ai-engine-direct-helper/samples/python

• Prepare input image. The following image is used as an example:

  

  input image

• Run inference

  Device

  python3 real_esrgan_general_x4v3/real_esrgan_general_x4v3.py

  $ python3 real_esrgan_general_x4v3/real_esrgan_general_x4v3.py
       0.0ms [WARNING]  <W> Initializing HtpProvider
  
  /prj/qct/webtech_scratch20/mlg_user_admin/qaisw_source_repo/rel/qairt-2.37.1/point_release/SNPE_SRC/avante-tools/prebuilt/dsp/hexagon-sdk-5.5.5/ipc/fastrpc/rpcmem/src/rpcmem_android.c:38:dummy call to rpcmem_init, rpcmem APIs will be used from libxdsprpc
       0.0ms [WARNING]  <W> This META does not have Alloc2 Support
  
       0.0ms [WARNING]  <W> This META does not have Alloc2 Support
  
       0.0ms [WARNING]  <W> This META does not have Alloc2 Support
  
       0.0ms [WARNING]  <W> This META does not have Alloc2 Support
  
     248.6ms [WARNING] Time: Read model file to memory. 4.00
  
       0.0ms [WARNING]  <W> This META does not have Alloc2 Support
  
       0.0ms [WARNING]  <W> This META does not have Alloc2 Support
  
       0.0ms [WARNING]  <W> This META does not have Alloc2 Support
  
       0.0ms [WARNING]  <W> This META does not have Alloc2 Support
  
       0.0ms [WARNING]  <W> This META does not have Alloc2 Support
  
       0.0ms [WARNING]  <W> This META does not have Alloc2 Support
  
       0.0ms [WARNING]  <W> This META does not have Alloc2 Support
  
     324.8ms [WARNING] Time: contextCreateFromBinary. 76.10
  
     324.9ms [WARNING] Time: UnmapViewOfFile. 0.00
  
     326.0ms [WARNING] Time: model_initialize realesrgan 325.97
  
     539.0ms [WARNING] Time: model_inference realesrgan 176.50
  
       0.0ms [WARNING]  <W> This META does not have Alloc2 Support
  
       0.0ms [WARNING]  <W> This META does not have Alloc2 Support
  
       0.0ms [WARNING]  <W> This META does not have Alloc2 Support
  
       0.0ms [WARNING]  <W> This META does not have Alloc2 Support
  
  /usr/bin/xdg-open: 882: www-browser: not found
  /usr/bin/xdg-open: 882: links2: not found
  /usr/bin/xdg-open: 882: elinks: not found
  /usr/bin/xdg-open: 882: links: not found
  /usr/bin/xdg-open: 882: lynx: not found
  /usr/bin/xdg-open: 882: w3m: not found
  xdg-open: no method available for opening '/tmp/tmp3vvli4p1.PNG'
  /prj/qct/webtech_scratch20/mlg_user_admin/qaisw_source_repo/rel/qairt-2.37.1/point_release/SNPE_SRC/avante-tools/prebuilt/dsp/hexagon-sdk-5.5.5/ipc/fastrpc/rpcmem/src/rpcmem_android.c:42:dummy call to rpcmem_deinit, rpcmem APIs will be used from libxdsprpc
    3871.6ms [WARNING] Time: model_destroy realesrgan 101.28

  

  output image