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Image super-resolution (SR) aims to reconstruct high-quality, high-resolution (HR) images from low-resolution (LR) inputs and plays a critical role in various downstream applications. Despite recent advancements, balancing reconstruction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Hanli Zhao , Binhao Wang , Shihao Zhao , Tao Wang , Kaihao Zhang , Wanglong Lu

As a successful deep model applied in image super-resolution (SR), the Super-Resolution Convolutional Neural Network (SRCNN) has demonstrated superior performance to the previous hand-crafted models either in speed and restoration quality.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-02 Chao Dong , Chen Change Loy , Xiaoou Tang

Image Super-Resolution (SR) aims to recover a high-resolution image from its low-resolution counterpart, which has been affected by a specific degradation process. This is achieved by enhancing detail and visual quality. Recent advancements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Debasish Dutta , Deepjyoti Chetia , Neeharika Sonowal , Sanjib Kr Kalita

On-device continual learning (CL) is critical for edge AI systems operating on non-stationary data streams, but most existing methods rely on backpropagation or exemplar-heavy classifiers, incurring substantial compute, memory, and latency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Jebacyril Arockiaraj , Dhruv Parikh , Viktor Prasanna

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have significantly advanced Image Super-Resolution (SR), yet most CNN-based methods rely solely on pixel-based transformations, often leading to artifacts and blurring, particularly under severe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Bingwen Hu , Heng Liu , Zhedong Zheng , Ping Liu

Deploying Vision-Language Models (VLMs) on edge devices (e.g., smartphones and robots) is crucial for enabling low-latency and privacy-preserving intelligent applications. Given the resource constraints of these devices, quantization offers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Tianyu Guo , Shanwei Zhao , Shiai Zhu , Chenguang Ma

Image Super Resolution (SR) finds applications in areas where images need to be closely inspected by the observer to extract enhanced information. One such focused application is an offline forensic analysis of surveillance feeds. Due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Muhammad Ali Farooq , Ammar Ali Khan , Ansar Ahmad , Rana Hammad Raza

Extreme edge platforms, such as in-vehicle smart devices, require efficient deployment of quantized deep neural networks (DNNs) to enable intelligent applications with limited amounts of energy, memory, and computing resources. However,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Longwei Huang , Chao Fang , Qiong Li , Jun Lin , Zhongfeng Wang

Recently, deep learning based single image super-resolution(SR) approaches have achieved great development. The state-of-the-art SR methods usually adopt a feed-forward pipeline to establish a non-linear mapping between low-res(LR) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-02 Jinghui Qin , Ziwei Xie , Yukai Shi , Wushao Wen

Face Super-Resolution (FSR) aims to recover high-resolution (HR) face images from low-resolution (LR) ones. Despite the progress made by convolutional neural networks in FSR, the results of existing approaches are not ideal due to their low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Hao Liu , Yang Yang , Yunxia Liu

While deep-learning-based image restoration has achieved unprecedented fidelity, deployment on mobile Neural Processing Units (NPUs) remains bottlenecked by operator incompatibility and memory-access overhead. We propose an NPU-aware…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Faraz Kayani , Sarmad Kayani , Asad Ahmed , Radu Timofte , Dmitry Ignatov

As a fundamental challenge in visual computing, video super-resolution (VSR) focuses on reconstructing highdefinition video sequences from their degraded lowresolution counterparts. While deep convolutional neural networks have demonstrated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-23 Biao Wu , Diankai Zhang , Shaoli Liu , Si Gao , Chengjian Zheng , Ning Wang

Despite the proliferation of diverse hardware accelerators (e.g., NPU, TPU, DPU), deploying deep learning models on edge devices with fixed-point hardware is still challenging due to complex model quantization and conversion. Existing model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Manasa Manohara , Sankalp Dayal , Tariq Afzal , Rahul Bakshi , Kahkuen Fu

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

Hyperspectral imagers on satellites obtain the fine spectral signatures essential for distinguishing one material from another at the expense of limited spatial resolution. Enhancing the latter is thus a desirable preprocessing step in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-11 Davide Piccinini , Diego Valsesia , Enrico Magli

Mixed-precision neural network (MPNN) that utilizes just enough data width for the neural network processing is an effective approach to meet the stringent resources constraints including memory and computing of MCUs. Nevertheless, there is…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Junfeng Gong , Cheng Liu , Long Cheng , Huawei Li , Xiaowei Li

Artificial Intelligence-Generated Content (AIGC) has made significant strides, with high-resolution text-to-image (T2I) generation becoming increasingly critical for improving users' Quality of Experience (QoE). Although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Chongbin Yi , Yuxin Liang , Ziqi Zhou , Peng Yang

Face video super-resolution algorithm aims to reconstruct realistic face details through continuous input video sequences. However, existing video processing algorithms usually contain redundant parameters to guarantee different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Feng Yu , He Li , Sige Bian , Yongming Tang

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

Burst super-resolution (BurstSR) aims at reconstructing a high-resolution (HR) image from a sequence of low-resolution (LR) and noisy images, which is conducive to enhancing the imaging effects of smartphones with limited sensors. The main…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Renlong Wu , Zhilu Zhang , Shuohao Zhang , Hongzhi Zhang , Wangmeng Zuo