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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

We introduce StrCGAN (Stellar Cyclic GAN), a generative model designed to enhance low-resolution astrophotography images. Our goal is to reconstruct high fidelity ground truth like representations of stellar objects, a task that is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Shantanusinh Parmar , Silas Janke

The performance of image super-resolution relies heavily on the accuracy of degradation information, especially under blind settings. Due to the absence of true degradation models in real-world scenarios, previous methods learn distinct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Hongda Liu , Longguang Wang , Ye Zhang , Kaiwen Xue , Shunbo Zhou , Yulan Guo

Degradation models play an important role in Blind super-resolution (SR). The classical degradation model, which mainly involves blur degradation, is too simple to simulate real-world scenarios. The recently proposed practical degradation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-11 Wenlong Zhang , Guangyuan Shi , Yihao Liu , Chao Dong , Xiao-Ming Wu

Real low-resolution (LR) face images contain degradations which are too varied and complex to be captured by known downsampling kernels and signal-independent noises. So, in order to successfully super-resolve real faces, a method needs to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-09 Saurabh Goswami , Aakanksha , Rajagopalan A. N

Due to the limitations of sensors, the transmission medium and the intrinsic properties of ultrasound, the quality of ultrasound imaging is always not ideal, especially its low spatial resolution. To remedy this situation, deep learning…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-29 Heng Liu , Jianyong Liu , Tao Tao , Shudong Hou , Jungong Han

Artifact-free super-resolution (SR) aims to translate low-resolution images into their high-resolution counterparts with a strict integrity of the original content, eliminating any distortions or synthetic details. While traditional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Qingping Zheng , Ling Zheng , Yuanfan Guo , Ying Li , Songcen Xu , Jiankang Deng , Hang Xu

Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) have demonstrated the potential to recover realistic details for single image super-resolution (SISR). To further improve the visual quality of super-resolved results, PIRM2018-SR Challenge employed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Wenlong Zhang , Yihao Liu , Chao Dong , Yu Qiao

Scene text image super-resolution (STISR) is an important pre-processing technique for text recognition from low-resolution scene images. Nowadays, various methods have been proposed to extract text-specific information from high-resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Minyi Zhao , Yi Xu , Bingjia Li , Jie Wang , Jihong Guan , Shuigeng Zhou

Image Super-Resolution (ISR), which aims at recovering High-Resolution (HR) images from the corresponding Low-Resolution (LR) counterparts. Although recent progress in ISR has been remarkable. However, they are way too computationally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Jie Cai , Zibo Meng , Jiaming Ding , Chiu Man Ho

Preserving cultural heritage is of paramount importance. In the domain of art restoration, developing a computer vision model capable of effectively restoring deteriorated images of art pieces was difficult, but now we have a good computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Sandeep Nagar , Abhinaba Bala , Sai Amrit Patnaik

Most existing CNN-based super-resolution (SR) methods are developed based on an assumption that the degradation is fixed and known (e.g., bicubic downsampling). However, these methods suffer a severe performance drop when the real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Longguang Wang , Yingqian Wang , Xiaoyu Dong , Qingyu Xu , Jungang Yang , Wei An , Yulan Guo

Image super-resolution (SR) research has witnessed impressive progress thanks to the advance of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in recent years. However, most existing SR methods are non-blind and assume that degradation has a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Jiahui Zhang , Shijian Lu , Fangneng Zhan , Yingchen Yu

Low-light image enhancement aims to improve an image's visibility while keeping its visual naturalness. Different from existing methods tending to accomplish the relighting task directly by ignoring the fidelity and naturalness recovery, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Kui Jiang , Zhongyuan Wang , Zheng Wang , Chen Chen , Peng Yi , Tao Lu , Chia-Wen Lin

Single Image Super Resolution (SISR) is a well-researched problem with broad commercial relevance. However, most of the SISR literature focuses on small-size images under 500px, whereas business needs can mandate the generation of very high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Harsh Nilesh Pathak , Xinxin Li , Shervin Minaee , Brooke Cowan

In this paper, we tackle the problem of blind image super-resolution(SR) with a reformulated degradation model and two novel modules. Following the common practices of blind SR, our method proposes to improve both the kernel estimation as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-28 Ziwei Luo , Haibin Huang , Lei Yu , Youwei Li , Haoqiang Fan , Shuaicheng Liu

With the robust development of technology, license plate recognition technology can now be properly applied in various scenarios, such as road monitoring, tracking of stolen vehicles, detection at parking lot entrances and exits, and so on.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Ching-Hsiang Wang

The proposal of perceptual loss solves the problem that per-pixel difference loss function causes the reconstructed image to be overly-smooth, which acquires a significant progress in the field of single image super-resolution…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-19 Jie Song , Huawei Yi , Wenqian Xu , Xiaohui Li , Bo Li , Yuanyuan Liu

In the blind single image super-resolution (SISR) task, existing works have been successful in restoring image-level unknown degradations. However, when a single video frame becomes the input, these works usually fail to address…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-27 Boyang Wang , Bowen Liu , Shiyu Liu , Fengyu Yang

High-resolution (HR) solar imaging is crucial for capturing fine-scale dynamic features such as filaments and fibrils. However, the spatial resolution of the full-disk H$\alpha$ images is limited and insufficient to resolve these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Chenyang Li , Qin Li , Haimin Wang , Bo Shen