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Enhanced Super-Resolution Generative Adversarial Network (ESRGAN) is a perceptual-driven approach for single image super resolution that is able to produce photorealistic images. Despite the visual quality of these generated images, there…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-16 Nathanaël Carraz Rakotonirina , Andry Rasoanaivo

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

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) based semi-supervised learning (SSL) approaches are shown to improve classification performance by utilizing a large number of unlabeled samples in conjunction with limited labeled samples. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Zexi Chen , Bharathkumar Ramachandra , Ranga Raju Vatsavai

Real-world face super-resolution (SR) is a highly ill-posed image restoration task. The fully-cycled Cycle-GAN architecture is widely employed to achieve promising performance on face SR, but prone to produce artifacts upon challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Hao Hou , Jun Xu , Yingkun Hou , Xiaotao Hu , Benzheng Wei , Dinggang Shen

We propose an image super resolution(ISR) method using generative adversarial networks (GANs) that takes a low resolution input fundus image and generates a high resolution super resolved (SR) image upto scaling factor of $16$. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Dwarikanath Mahapatra , Behzad Bozorgtabar

In the past decades, the excessive use of the last-generation GAN (Generative Adversarial Networks) models in computer vision has enabled the creation of artificial face images that are visually indistinguishable from genuine ones. These…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Ehsan Nowroozi , Mauro Conti , Yassine Mekdad

The Super-Resolution Generative Adversarial Network (SRGAN) is a seminal work that is capable of generating realistic textures during single image super-resolution. However, the hallucinated details are often accompanied with unpleasant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Xintao Wang , Ke Yu , Shixiang Wu , Jinjin Gu , Yihao Liu , Chao Dong , Chen Change Loy , Yu Qiao , Xiaoou Tang

This study introduces an enhanced approach to video super-resolution by extending ordinary Single-Image Super-Resolution (SISR) Super-Resolution Generative Adversarial Network (SRGAN) structure to handle spatio-temporal data. While SRGAN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Kağan Çetin , Hacer Akça , Ömer Nezih Gerek

In recent years, deep neural networks have been utilized in a wide variety of applications including image generation. In particular, generative adversarial networks (GANs) are able to produce highly realistic pictures as part of tasks such…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-20 Hyunsuk Ko , Dae Yeol Lee , Seunghyun Cho , Alan C. Bovik

Despite the breakthroughs in quality of image enhancement, an end-to-end solution for simultaneous recovery of the finer texture details and sharpness for degraded images with low resolution is still unsolved. Some existing approaches focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-17 Soumya Shubhra Ghosh , Yang Hua , Sankha Subhra Mukherjee , Neil Robertson

A promise of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) is to provide cheap photorealistic data for training and validating AI models in autonomous driving. Despite their huge success, their performance on complex images featuring multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-17 George Eskandar , Youssef Farag , Tarun Yenamandra , Daniel Cremers , Karim Guirguis , Bin Yang

A good Text-to-Image model should not only generate high quality images, but also ensure the consistency between the text and the generated image. Previous models failed to simultaneously fix both sides well. This paper proposes a Gradual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Bo Yang , Fangxiang Feng , Xiaojie Wang

There is a growing demand for high-resolution (HR) medical images in both the clinical and research applications. Image quality is inevitably traded off with the acquisition time for better patient comfort, lower examination costs, dose,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-07 Kuan Zhang , Haoji Hu , Kenneth Philbrick , Gian Marco Conte , Joseph D. Sobek , Pouria Rouzrokh , Bradley J. Erickson

Super-Resolution (SR) is a time-hallowed image processing problem that aims to improve the quality of a Low-Resolution (LR) sample up to the standard of its High-Resolution (HR) counterpart. We aim to address this by introducing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-10 Arkaprabha Basu , Kushal Bose , Sankha Subhra Mullick , Anish Chakrabarty , Swagatam Das

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in Semantic Image Synthesis (SIS) through the use of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and diffusion models. This field has seen innovations such as the implementation of specialized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Khaled M. Seyam , Julian Wiederer , Markus Braun , Bin Yang

The Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) is a state-of-the-art technique in the field of deep learning. A number of recent papers address the theory and applications of GANs in various fields of image processing. Fewer studies, however,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Shuyue Guan , Murray Loew

Machine Learning, particularly Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), has revolutionised Super-Resolution (SR). However, generated images often lack physical meaningfulness, which is essential for scientific applications. Our approach,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-13 Md Rakibul Hasan , Pouria Behnoudfar , Dan MacKinlay , Thomas Poulet

Generative Adversarial Nets (GANs) have shown promise in image generation and semi-supervised learning (SSL). However, existing GANs in SSL have two problems: (1) the generator and the discriminator (i.e. the classifier) may not be optimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Chongxuan Li , Kun Xu , Jun Zhu , Bo Zhang

How to generate the ground-truth (GT) image is a critical issue for training realistic image super-resolution (Real-ISR) models. Existing methods mostly take a set of high-resolution (HR) images as GTs and apply various degradations to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Du Chen , Jie Liang , Xindong Zhang , Ming Liu , Hui Zeng , Lei Zhang

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have obtained extraordinary success in the generation of realistic images, a domain where a lower pixel-level accuracy is acceptable. We study the problem, not yet tackled in the literature, of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Emanuele Ghelfi , Paolo Galeone , Michele De Simoni , Federico Di Mattia