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Image Super-Resolution (SR) techniques improve visual quality by enhancing the spatial resolution of images. Quality evaluation metrics play a critical role in comparing and optimizing SR algorithms, but current metrics achieve only limited…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-17 Tiesong Zhao , Yuting Lin , Yiwen Xu , Weiling Chen , Zhou Wang

Real-world data processing problems often involve various image modalities associated with a certain scene, including RGB images, infrared images or multi-spectral images. The fact that different image modalities often share certain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Pingfan Song , Xin Deng , João F. C. Mota , Nikos Deligiannis , Pier Luigi Dragotti , Miguel R. D. Rodrigues

Video super-resolution (VSR) aiming to reconstruct a high-resolution (HR) video from its low-resolution (LR) counterpart has made tremendous progress in recent years. However, it remains challenging to deploy existing VSR methods to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Ruohao Wang , Xiaohui Liu , Zhilu Zhang , Xiaohe Wu , Chun-Mei Feng , Lei Zhang , Wangmeng Zuo

Previous studies in blind super-resolution (BSR) have primarily concentrated on estimating degradation kernels directly from low-resolution (LR) inputs to enhance super-resolution. However, these degradation kernels, which model the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-21 Huu-Phu Do , Po-Chih Hu , Hao-Chien Hsueh , Che-Kai Liu , Vu-Hoang Tran , Ching-Chun Huang

Super-resolution (SR) aims to reconstruct high-resolution (HR) images from their low-resolution (LR) counterparts, often relying on effective downsampling to generate diverse and realistic training pairs. In this work, we propose a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-18 Sohwi Kim , Tae-Kyun Kim

We propose a simple yet effective model for Single Image Super-Resolution (SISR), by combining the merits of Residual Learning and Convolutional Sparse Coding (RL-CSC). Our model is inspired by the Learned Iterative Shrinkage-Threshold…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Menglei Zhang , Zhou Liu , Lei Yu

Standard single-image super-resolution (SR) upsamples and restores entire images. Yet several real-world applications require higher resolutions only in specific regions, such as license plates or faces, making the super-resolution of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Bo Ji , Angela Yao

Image super-resolution methods have made significant strides with deep learning techniques and ample training data. However, they face challenges due to inherent misalignment between low-resolution (LR) and high-resolution (HR) pairs in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Omar Elezabi , Zongwei Wu , Radu Timofte

We present a deep residual network-based generative model for single image super-resolution (SISR) of underwater imagery for use by autonomous underwater robots. We also provide an adversarial training pipeline for learning SISR from paired…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-26 Md Jahidul Islam , Sadman Sakib Enan , Peigen Luo , Junaed Sattar

One impressive advantage of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) is their ability to automatically learn feature representation from raw pixels, eliminating the need for hand-designed procedures. However, recent methods for single image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-27 Yifan Wang , Lijun Wang , Hongyu Wang , Peihua Li

Deep learning-based single-image super-resolution (SISR) technology focuses on enhancing low-resolution (LR) images into high-resolution (HR) ones. Although significant progress has been made, challenges remain in computational complexity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Rongchang Lu , Changyu Li , Donghang Li , Guojing Zhang , Jianqiang Huang , Xilai Li

In recent times, the need for effective super-resolution (SR) techniques has surged, especially for large-scale images ranging 2K to 8K resolutions. For DNN-based SISR, decomposing images into overlapping patches is typically necessary due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Jinho Jeong , Jinwoo Kim , Younghyun Jo , Seon Joo Kim

Existing deep learning-based video super-resolution (SR) methods usually depend on the supervised learning approach, where the training data is usually generated by the blurring operation with known or predefined kernels (e.g., Bicubic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Haoran Bai , Jinshan Pan

Magnetic resonance image (MRI) in high spatial resolution provides detailed anatomical information and is often necessary for accurate quantitative analysis. However, high spatial resolution typically comes at the expense of longer scan…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Yuhua Chen , Yibin Xie , Zhengwei Zhou , Feng Shi , Anthony G. Christodoulou , Debiao Li

Recent image degradation estimation methods have enabled single-image super-resolution (SR) approaches to better upsample real-world images. Among these methods, explicit kernel estimation approaches have demonstrated unprecedented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Royson Lee , Rui Li , Stylianos I. Venieris , Timothy Hospedales , Ferenc Huszár , Nicholas D. Lane

Self-similarity learning has been recognized as a promising method for single image super-resolution (SR) to produce high-resolution (HR) image in recent years. The performance of learning based SR reconstruction, however, highly depends on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Jiahe Shi , Chun Qi

Super-resolution (SR) applied to real-world low-resolution (LR) images often results in complex, irregular degradations that stem from the inherent complexity of natural scene acquisition. In contrast to SR artifacts arising from synthetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Kian Majlessi , Amir Masoud Soltani , Mohammad Ebrahim Mahdavi , Aurelien Gourrier , Peyman Adibi

With advancement in deep neural network (DNN), recent state-of-the-art (SOTA) image superresolution (SR) methods have achieved impressive performance using deep residual network with dense skip connections. While these models perform well…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-25 Zhihong Pan , Baopu Li , Teng Xi , Yanwen Fan , Gang Zhang , Jingtuo Liu , Junyu Han , Errui Ding

Portrait pictures, which typically feature both human subjects and natural backgrounds, are one of the most prevalent forms of photography on social media. Existing image super-resolution (ISR) techniques generally focus either on generic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Renjie Li , Zihao Zhu , Xiaoyu Wang , Zhengzhong Tu

Traditional blind image SR methods need to model real-world degradations precisely. Consequently, current research struggles with this dilemma by assuming idealized degradations, which leads to limited applicability to actual user data.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-30 Brian B. Moser , Ahmed Anwar , Federico Raue , Stanislav Frolov , Andreas Dengel