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Recent years have witnessed the unprecedented success of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in single image super-resolution (SISR). However, existing CNN-based SISR methods mostly assume that a low-resolution (LR) image is bicubicly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-25 Kai Zhang , Wangmeng Zuo , Lei Zhang

Recently, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have shown promising performance in super-resolution (SR). However, these methods operate primarily on Low Resolution (LR) inputs for memory efficiency but this limits, as we demonstrate, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Muneeb Aadil , Rafia Rahim , Sibt ul Hussain

Recent segmentation methods, such as OCR and CPNet, utilizing "class level" information in addition to pixel features, have achieved notable success for boosting the accuracy of existing network modules. However, the extracted class-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Ye Huang , Di Kang , Liang Chen , Xuefei Zhe , Wenjing Jia , Xiangjian He , Linchao Bao

Applying convolutional neural networks to large images is computationally expensive because the amount of computation scales linearly with the number of image pixels. We present a novel recurrent neural network model that is capable of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-06-25 Volodymyr Mnih , Nicolas Heess , Alex Graves , Koray Kavukcuoglu

Obtaining high-resolution (HR) segmentations from coarse annotations is a pervasive challenge in computer vision. Applications include inferring pixel-level segmentations from token-level labels in vision transformers, upsampling coarse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Xiaoling Hu , Peirong Liu , Dina Zemlyanker , Jonathan Williams Ramirez , Oula Puonti , Juan Eugenio Iglesias

Super-resolution (SR) is a technique that allows increasing the resolution of a given image. Having applications in many areas, from medical imaging to consumer electronics, several SR methods have been proposed. Currently, the best…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Marija Vella , João F. C. Mota

Recently data-driven image inpainting methods have made inspiring progress, impacting fundamental image editing tasks such as object removal and damaged image repairing. These methods are more effective than classic approaches, however, due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Zili Yi , Qiang Tang , Shekoofeh Azizi , Daesik Jang , Zhan Xu

Recent years have witnessed the great advances of deep neural networks (DNNs) in light field (LF) image super-resolution (SR). However, existing DNN-based LF image SR methods are developed on a single fixed degradation (e.g., bicubic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Yingqian Wang , Zhengyu Liang , Longguang Wang , Jungang Yang , Wei An , Yulan Guo

Spatial resolution adaptation is a technique which has often been employed in video compression to enhance coding efficiency. This approach encodes a lower resolution version of the input video and reconstructs the original resolution…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-16 Di Ma , Mariana Afonso , Fan Zhang , David R. Bull

Recently, several models based on deep neural networks have achieved great success in terms of both reconstruction accuracy and computational performance for single image super-resolution. In these methods, the low resolution (LR) input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-26 Wenzhe Shi , Jose Caballero , Ferenc Huszár , Johannes Totz , Andrew P. Aitken , Rob Bishop , Daniel Rueckert , Zehan Wang

Image downscaling is critical for efficient storage and transmission of high-resolution (HR) images. Existing learning-based methods focus on performing downscaling within the sRGB domain, which typically suffers from blurred details and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-01 Yang Ren , Hai Jiang , Wei Li , Menglong Yang , Heng Zhang , Zehua Sheng , Qingsheng Ye , Shuaicheng Liu

Recent research on super-resolution has progressed with the development of deep convolutional neural networks (DCNN). In particular, residual learning techniques exhibit improved performance. In this paper, we develop an enhanced deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Bee Lim , Sanghyun Son , Heewon Kim , Seungjun Nah , Kyoung Mu Lee

Facial image super-resolution (SR) is an important preprocessing for facial image analysis, face recognition, and image-based 3D face reconstruction. Recent convolutional neural network (CNN) based method has shown excellent performance by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Jung Un Yun , In Kyu Park

Downsampling is widely adopted to achieve a good trade-off between accuracy and latency for visual recognition. Unfortunately, the commonly used pooling layers are not learned, and thus cannot preserve important information. As another…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Ho Man Kwan , Shenghui Song

Realistic image super-resolution (SR) focuses on transforming real-world low-resolution (LR) images into high-resolution (HR) ones, handling more complex degradation patterns than synthetic SR tasks. This is critical for applications like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Chaowei Fang , Bolin Fu , De Cheng , Lechao Cheng , Guanbin Li

Learning powerful feature representations for image retrieval has always been a challenging task in the field of remote sensing. Traditional methods focus on extracting low-level hand-crafted features which are not only time-consuming but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-22 Weixun Zhou , Shawn Newsam , Congmin Li , Zhenfeng Shao

In this paper, we present a novel, learning-based, two-step super-resolution (SR) algorithm well suited to solve the specially demanding problem of obtaining SR estimates from short image sequences. The first step, devoted to increase the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-01-19 Carlos Miravet , Francisco B. Rodríguez

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

Compared to CNN-based methods, Transformer-based methods achieve impressive image restoration outcomes due to their abilities to model remote dependencies. However, how to apply Transformer-based methods to the field of blind…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Qingguo Liu , Pan Gao , Kang Han , Ningzhong Liu , Wei Xiang

We present a highly accurate single-image super-resolution (SR) method. Our method uses a very deep convolutional network inspired by VGG-net used for ImageNet classification \cite{simonyan2015very}. We find increasing our network depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-14 Jiwon Kim , Jung Kwon Lee , Kyoung Mu Lee