common.md

  "input": "path/to/input",
  "output": "path/to/output",
  "process":[]
  "tile": {
    "size": 512,
    "no_wb": true
  },
  "num_workers": 16,
  "map_type": "process",
  "laplace_filter": 0.02,
  "size": 1000,
  "shuffle_dataset": true,
  "gray": false,
  "gray_or_color":true,
  "debug": false,
  "only_lq": false,
  "real_name": false,
  "out_clear": true,

• input - input folder
• output - output folder (saves new HQ and LQ images)
• process - The degradations that will be applied to your images
• num_workers* - The number of processes for parallel processing. It's best to use your CPU core count
• map_type* - Valid processing types: process, thread and for
  • If you run into issues on Windows, swap to thread
• size* - How many images to process from the input folder
• laplace_filter* - It filters out images based on low saturation using the laplace operator. Accepts a float value. (experiment with it)
• shuffle_dataset* - Determines whether or not the images will be shuffled
• tile* - This section enables automatic tiling of your images. For example, if you choose size 512, it'll split a single image into multiple 512x512 images.
  • size - tile size
  • no_wb* - Ignore pure white and pure black images (bool)
• gray* - All images are read only in grayscale mode
• gray_or_color* - If an image has shades transitioning smoothly from light to dark and all RGB values for each pixel are almost the same, it gets converted to grayscale.
  • This is very performance intensive.
• debug* - Creates a debug folder if it doesn't exist, and in it creates a debug.log file where all random values during degradation processes will be logged. When enabled, it ignores map_type by setting it to for.
• out_clear* - Cleans the output directory out_path/lq|hq if it exists and contains files. Just to make the tests easier

Doesn't work with tile:

• only_lq* - Saves only lq files without hq. spread in resize causes discrepancies, so turn it off
• real_name* - When saving, the names do not change