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Super-resolution is a fundamental problem in computer vision which aims to overcome the spatial limitation of camera sensors. While significant progress has been made in single image super-resolution, most algorithms only perform well on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Xiangyu Xu , Yongrui Ma , Wenxiu Sun , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Super-resolution (SR) aims to increase the resolution of imagery. Applications include security, medical imaging, and object recognition. We propose a deep learning-based SR system that takes a hexagonally sampled low-resolution image as an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-05 Dylan Flaute , Russell C. Hardie , Hamed Elwarfalli

Deep neural networks for image quality enhancement typically need large quantities of highly-curated training data comprising pairs of low-quality images and their corresponding high-quality images. While high-quality image acquisition is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-30 Uddeshya Upadhyay , Suyash Awate

In this paper we investigate the feasibility of using synthetic data to augment face datasets. In particular, we propose a novel generative adversarial network (GAN) that can disentangle identity-related attributes from non-identity-related…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Daniel Sáez Trigueros , Li Meng , Margaret Hartnett

Facial Expressions Recognition(FER) on low-resolution images is necessary for applications like group expression recognition in crowd scenarios(station, classroom etc.). Classifying a small size facial image into the right expression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Wei Jing , Feng Tian , Jizhong Zhang , Kuo-Ming Chao , Zhenxin Hong , Xu Liu

Recent deep learning approaches to single image super-resolution have achieved impressive results in terms of traditional error measures and perceptual quality. However, in each case it remains challenging to achieve high quality results…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-11 Yifan Wang , Federico Perazzi , Brian McWilliams , Alexander Sorkine-Hornung , Olga Sorkine-Hornung , Christopher Schroers

With the growing importance of preventing the COVID-19 virus, face images obtained in most video surveillance scenarios are low resolution with mask simultaneously. However, most of the previous face super-resolution solutions can not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Guangwei Gao , Lei Tang , Fei Wu , Huimin Lu , Jian Yang

Face Super-Resolution (SR) is a subfield of the SR domain that specifically targets the reconstruction of face images. The main challenge of face SR is to restore essential facial features without distortion. We propose a novel face SR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Deokyun Kim , Minseon Kim , Gihyun Kwon , Dae-Shik Kim

We consider the single image super-resolution problem in a more general case that the low-/high-resolution pairs and the down-sampling process are unavailable. Different from traditional super-resolution formulation, the low-resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Yuan Yuan , Siyuan Liu , Jiawei Zhang , Yongbing Zhang , Chao Dong , Liang Lin

Currently, there are two popular approaches for addressing real-world image super-resolution problems: degradation-estimation-based and blind-based methods. However, degradation-estimation-based methods may be inaccurate in estimating the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Axi Niu , Kang Zhang , Trung X. Pham , Pei Wang , Jinqiu Sun , In So Kweon , Yanning Zhang

Recovering high-frequency details and textures from low-resolution images remains a fundamental challenge in super-resolution (SR), especially when real-world degradations are complex and unknown. While GAN-based methods enhance realism,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-12 Cansu Korkmaz , Nancy Mehta , Radu Timofte

Facial super-resolution/hallucination is an important area of research that seeks to enhance low-resolution facial images for a variety of applications. While Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have shown promise in this area, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Trinetra Devkatte , Shiv Ram Dubey , Satish Kumar Singh , Abdenour Hadid

Existing face hallucination methods based on convolutional neural networks (CNN) have achieved impressive performance on low-resolution (LR) faces in a normal illumination condition. However, their performance degrades dramatically when LR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Yang Zhang , Ivor Tsang , Yawei Luo , Changhui Hu , Xiaobo Lu , Xin Yu

Current developments in computer vision and deep learning allow to automatically generate hyper-realistic images, hardly distinguishable from real ones. In particular, human face generation achieved a stunning level of realism, opening new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Francesco Marra , Cristiano Saltori , Giulia Boato , Luisa Verdoliva

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

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

It is a common practice for utilities to down-sample smart meter measurements from high resolution (e.g. 1-min or 1-sec) to low resolution (e.g. 15-, 30- or 60-min) to lower the data transmission and storage cost. However, down-sampling can…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-28 Lidong Song , Yiyan Li , Ning Lu

Unsupervised real world super resolution (USR) aims to restore high-resolution (HR) images given low-resolution (LR) inputs, and its difficulty stems from the absence of paired dataset. One of the most common approaches is synthesizing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-23 Sangyun Lee , Sewoong Ahn , Kwangjin Yoon

Nerf-based Generative models have shown impressive capacity in generating high-quality images with consistent 3D geometry. Despite successful synthesis of fake identity images randomly sampled from latent space, adopting these models for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Yu Yin , Kamran Ghasedi , HsiangTao Wu , Jiaolong Yang , Xin Tong , Yun Fu

Surveillance scenarios are prone to several problems since they usually involve low-resolution footage, and there is no control of how far the subjects may be from the camera in the first place. This situation is suitable for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Angelo G. Menezes