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Edge-enhanced Feature Distillation Network for Efficient Super-Resolution

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2022-06-23 v2 Image and Video Processing

Abstract

With the recently massive development in convolution neural networks, numerous lightweight CNN-based image super-resolution methods have been proposed for practical deployments on edge devices. However, most existing methods focus on one specific aspect: network or loss design, which leads to the difficulty of minimizing the model size. To address the issue, we conclude block devising, architecture searching, and loss design to obtain a more efficient SR structure. In this paper, we proposed an edge-enhanced feature distillation network, named EFDN, to preserve the high-frequency information under constrained resources. In detail, we build an edge-enhanced convolution block based on the existing reparameterization methods. Meanwhile, we propose edge-enhanced gradient loss to calibrate the reparameterized path training. Experimental results show that our edge-enhanced strategies preserve the edge and significantly improve the final restoration quality. Code is available at https://github.com/icandle/EFDN.

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@article{arxiv.2204.08759,
  title  = {Edge-enhanced Feature Distillation Network for Efficient Super-Resolution},
  author = {Yan Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.08759},
  year   = {2022}
}

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Accepted to NTIRE workshop at CVPR 2022

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