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By using residual blocks and filters reasonably, the model size is greatly expanded while the stable training is also guaranteed. Besides, a perceptual evaluation function, which contains three parts of loss, is proposed. The experiment results show that the evaluation function provides great support for the quality of reconstruction and the competitive performance. 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