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We propose a deep learning method for single image super-resolution (SR). Our method directly learns an end-to-end mapping between the low/high-resolution images. The mapping is represented as a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-08-03 Chao Dong , Chen Change Loy , Kaiming He , Xiaoou Tang

High Resolution (HR) medical images provide rich anatomical structure details to facilitate early and accurate diagnosis. In MRI, restricted by hardware capacity, scan time, and patient cooperation ability, isotropic 3D HR image acquisition…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-01 Qing Wu , Yuwei Li , Yawen Sun , Yan Zhou , Hongjiang Wei , Jingyi Yu , Yuyao Zhang

While deep learning-based super-resolution (SR) methods have shown impressive outcomes with synthetic degradation scenarios such as bicubic downsampling, they frequently struggle to perform well on real-world images that feature complex,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Hyeonjae Kim , Dongjin Kim , Eugene Jin , Tae Hyun Kim

Methods based on convolutional neural network (CNN) have demonstrated tremendous improvements on single image super-resolution. However, the previous methods mainly restore images from one single area in the low resolution (LR) input, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Xiaoyi Jia , Xiangmin Xu , Bolun Cai , Kailing Guo

Deep neural networks have exhibited promising performance in image super-resolution (SR) by learning a nonlinear mapping function from low-resolution (LR) images to high-resolution (HR) images. However, there are two underlying limitations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Yong Guo , Jian Chen , Jingdong Wang , Qi Chen , Jiezhang Cao , Zeshuai Deng , Yanwu Xu , Mingkui Tan

In many image-related tasks, learning expressive and discriminative representations of images is essential, and deep learning has been studied for automating the learning of such representations. Some user-centric tasks, such as image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Chenyi Lei , Dong Liu , Weiping Li , Zheng-Jun Zha , Houqiang Li

Limited by the nature of the low-dimensional representational capacity of 3DMM, most of the 3DMM-based face reconstruction (FR) methods fail to recover high-frequency facial details, such as wrinkles, dimples, etc. Some attempt to solve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Biwen Lei , Jianqiang Ren , Mengyang Feng , Miaomiao Cui , Xuansong Xie

Several recent works have addressed the ability of deep learning to disclose rich, hierarchical and discriminative models for the most diverse purposes. Specifically in the super-resolution field, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Eduardo Ribeiro , Andreas Uhl , Fernando Alonso-Fernandez

Image rescaling is a commonly used bidirectional operation, which first downscales high-resolution images to fit various display screens or to be storage- and bandwidth-friendly, and afterward upscales the corresponding low-resolution…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-11 Mingqing Xiao , Shuxin Zheng , Chang Liu , Zhouchen Lin , Tie-Yan Liu

Convolutional neural networks are the most successful models in single image super-resolution. Deeper networks, residual connections, and attention mechanisms have further improved their performance. However, these strategies often improve…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-09 Parichehr Behjati , Pau Rodriguez , Armin Mehri , Isabelle Hupont , Carles Fernández Tena , Jordi Gonzalez

Recent advances in implicit neural representations (INRs) have shown significant promise in modeling visual signals for various low-vision tasks including image super-resolution (ISR). INR-based ISR methods typically learn continuous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Yuxuan Jiang , Ho Man Kwan , Tianhao Peng , Ge Gao , Fan Zhang , Xiaoqing Zhu , Joel Sole , David Bull

The deep convolutional neural networks have achieved significant improvements in accuracy and speed for single image super-resolution. However, as the depth of network grows, the information flow is weakened and the training becomes harder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Yanting Hu , Xinbo Gao , Jie Li , Yuanfei Huang , Hanzi Wang

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

Image restoration under hazy weather condition, which is called single image dehazing, has been of significant interest for various computer vision applications. In recent years, deep learning-based methods have achieved success. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Tao Wang , Guangpin Tao , Wanglong Lu , Kaihao Zhang , Wenhan Luo , Xiaoqin Zhang , Tong Lu

Image reconstruction from insufficient data is common in computed tomography (CT), e.g., image reconstruction from truncated data, limited-angle data and sparse-view data. Deep learning has achieved impressive results in this field.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-21 Yixing Huang , Alexander Preuhs , Michael Manhart , Guenter Lauritsch , Andreas Maier

We introduce a multi-scale Image Super Resolution (ISR) method building on recent advances in Visual Auto-Regressive (VAR) modeling. VAR models break image tokenization into additive, gradually increasing scales, using Residual Quantization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Isma Hadji , Enrique Sanchez , Adrian Bulat , Brais Martinez , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

Implicit degradation modeling-based blind super-resolution (SR) has attracted more increasing attention in the community due to its excellent generalization to complex degradation scenarios and wide application range. How to extract more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Jiang Yuan , Ji Ma , Bo Wang , Weiming Hu

We propose a multi-layer variational autoencoder method, we call HR-VQVAE, that learns hierarchical discrete representations of the data. By utilizing a novel objective function, each layer in HR-VQVAE learns a discrete representation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Mohammad Adiban , Kalin Stefanov , Sabato Marco Siniscalchi , Giampiero Salvi

In various learning-based image restoration tasks, such as image denoising and image super-resolution, the degradation representations were widely used to model the degradation process and handle complicated degradation patterns. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Dasong Li , Yi Zhang , Ka Chun Cheung , Xiaogang Wang , Hongwei Qin , Hongsheng Li

High Dynamic Range (HDR) imaging aims to reproduce the wide range of brightness levels present in natural scenes, which the human visual system can perceive but conventional digital cameras often fail to capture due to their limited dynamic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-28 Kumbha Nagaswetha