history_updates.md

# History of New Features/Updates

:triangular_flag_on_post: **New Features/Updates**

- :white_check_mark: Oct 5, 2021. Add **ECBSR training and testing** codes: [ECBSR](https://github.com/xindongzhang/ECBSR).
  > ACMMM21: Edge-oriented Convolution Block for Real-time Super Resolution on Mobile Devices <br>
  > Xindong Zhang, Hui Zeng, Lei Zhang
- :white_check_mark: Sep 2, 2021. Add **SwinIR training and testing** codes: [SwinIR](https://github.com/JingyunLiang/SwinIR) by [Jingyun Liang](https://github.com/JingyunLiang). More details are in [HOWTOs.md](docs/HOWTOs.md#how-to-train-swinir-sr)
  > ICCVW21: SwinIR: Image Restoration Using Swin Transformer <br>
  > Jingyun Liang, Jiezhang Cao, Sun, Guolei Sun, Kai Zhang, Luc Van Gool and Radu Timofte
- :white_check_mark: Aug 5, 2021. Add NIQE, which produces the same results as MATLAB (both are 5.7296 for tests/data/baboon.png).
- :white_check_mark: July 31, 2021. Add **bi-directional video super-resolution** codes: [**BasicVSR** and IconVSR](https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.02181).
  > CVPR21: BasicVSR: The Search for Essential Components in Video Super-Resolution and Beyond <br>
  > Kelvin C.K., Xintao Wang, Ke Yu, Chao Dong, Chen Change Loy
- :white_check_mark: July 20, 2021. Add **dual-blind face restoration** codes: [HiFaceGAN](https://github.com/Lotayou/Face-Renovation) codes by [Lotayou](https://lotayou.github.io/).
- :white_check_mark: Nov 29, 2020. Add **ESRGAN** and **DFDNet** [colab demo](../colab)
- :white_check_mark: Sep 8, 2020. Add **blind face restoration** inference codes: [DFDNet](https://github.com/csxmli2016/DFDNet).
  > ECCV20: Blind Face Restoration via Deep Multi-scale Component Dictionaries <br>
  > Xiaoming Li, Chaofeng Chen, Shangchen Zhou, Xianhui Lin, Wangmeng Zuo and Lei Zhang
- :white_check_mark: Aug 27, 2020. Add **StyleGAN2 training and testing** codes: [StyleGAN2](https://github.com/rosinality/stylegan2-pytorch).
  > CVPR20: Analyzing and Improving the Image Quality of StyleGAN <br>
  > Tero Karras, Samuli Laine, Miika Aittala, Janne Hellsten, Jaakko Lehtinen and Timo Aila
- :white_check_mark: Aug 19, 2020. A **brand-new** BasicSR v1.0.0 online.