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Super-resolution (SR) methods have seen significant advances thanks to the development of convolutional neural networks (CNNs). CNNs have been successfully employed to improve the quality of endomicroscopy imaging. Yet, the inherent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-26 Agnieszka Barbara Szczotka , Dzhoshkun Ismail Shakir , Matthew J. Clarkson , Stephen P. Pereira , Tom Vercauteren

Recently, sparsity-based algorithms are proposed for super-resolution spectrum estimation. However, to achieve adequately high resolution in real-world signal analysis, the dictionary atoms have to be close to each other in frequency,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-06-05 Yiyuan She , Huanghuang Li , Jiangping Wang , Dapeng Wu

Single image super resolution (SISR) is an ill-posed problem aiming at estimating a plausible high resolution (HR) image from a single low resolution (LR) image. Current state-of-the-art SISR methods are patch-based. They use either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-13 Cristóvão Cruz , Rakesh Mehta , Vladimir Katkovnik , Karen Egiazarian

Reconstructing high-resolution (HR) images from low-resolution (LR) inputs poses a significant challenge in image super-resolution (SR). While recent approaches have demonstrated the efficacy of intricate operations customized for various…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-07 Eduard Zamfir , Zongwei Wu , Nancy Mehta , Yulun Zhang , Radu Timofte

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

Reference-based Super Resolution (RefSR) improves upon Single Image Super Resolution (SISR) by leveraging high-quality reference images to enhance texture fidelity and visual realism. However, a critical limitation of existing RefSR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Jiaqi Yan , Shuning Xu , Xiangyu Chen , Dell Zhang , Jiantao Zhou , Jie Tang , Gangshan Wu , Jie Liu

Advanced diffusion models (DMs) perform impressively in image super-resolution (SR), but the high memory and computational costs hinder their deployment. Binarization, an ultra-compression algorithm, offers the potential for effectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Zheng Chen , Haotong Qin , Yong Guo , Xiongfei Su , Xin Yuan , Linghe Kong , Yulun Zhang

Depth maps captured with commodity sensors are often of low quality and resolution; these maps need to be enhanced to be used in many applications. State-of-the-art data-driven methods of depth map super-resolution rely on registered pairs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Aleksandr Safin , Maxim Kan , Nikita Drobyshev , Oleg Voynov , Alexey Artemov , Alexander Filippov , Denis Zorin , Evgeny Burnaev

With the advent of smart devices that support 4K and 8K resolution, Single Image Super Resolution (SISR) has become an important computer vision problem. However, most super resolution deep networks are computationally very expensive. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-21 Kartikeya Bhardwaj , Milos Milosavljevic , Liam O'Neil , Dibakar Gope , Ramon Matas , Alex Chalfin , Naveen Suda , Lingchuan Meng , Danny Loh

This study proposes a systematic image registration approach to align 2D optical thin-section images within a 3D digital rock volume. Using template image matching with differential evolution optimization, we identify the most similar 2D…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-04-14 Jaehong Chung , Wei Cai , Tapan Mukerji

Image restoration algorithms such as super resolution (SR) are indispensable pre-processing modules for object detection in low quality images. Most of these algorithms assume the degradation is fixed and known a priori. However, in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Ziteng Cui , Yingying Zhu , Lin Gu , Guo-Jun Qi , Xiaoxiao Li , Renrui Zhang , Zenghui Zhang , Tatsuya Harada

Hyperspectral imaging is a cutting-edge type of remote sensing used for mapping vegetation properties, rock minerals and other materials. A major drawback of hyperspectral imaging devices is their intrinsic low spatial resolution. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Leon Bungert , David A. Coomes , Matthias J. Ehrhardt , Jennifer Rasch , Rafael Reisenhofer , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Stereo image super-resolution aims to improve the quality of high-resolution stereo image pairs by exploiting complementary information across views. To attain superior performance, many methods have prioritized designing complex modules to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Wenbin Zou , Hongxia Gao , Liang Chen , Yunchen Zhang , Mingchao Jiang , Zhongxin Yu , Ming Tan

Advances in image super-resolution (SR) have recently benefited significantly from rapid developments in deep neural networks. Inspired by these recent discoveries, we note that many state-of-the-art deep SR architectures can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Wei Han , Shiyu Chang , Ding Liu , Mo Yu , Michael Witbrock , Thomas S. Huang

We propose a new approach for the image super-resolution (SR) task that progressively restores a high-resolution (HR) image from an input low-resolution (LR) image on the basis of a neural ordinary differential equation. In particular, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-25 Seobin Park , Tae Hyun Kim

In digital photography, two image restoration tasks have been studied extensively and resolved independently: demosaicing and super-resolution. Both these tasks are related to resolution limitations of the camera. Performing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Ruofan Zhou , Radhakrishna Achanta , Sabine Süsstrunk

In digital rock physics, analysing microstructures from CT and SEM scans is crucial for estimating properties like porosity and pore connectivity. Traditional segmentation methods like thresholding and CNNs often fall short in accurately…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Zhaoyang Ma , Xupeng He , Hyung Kwak , Jun Gao , Shuyu Sun , Bicheng Yan

The deep learning technique was used to increase the performance of single image super-resolution (SISR). However, most existing CNN-based SISR approaches primarily focus on establishing deeper or larger networks to extract more significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Huipeng Zheng , Lukman Hakim , Takio Kurita , Junichi Miyao

Conventional super-resolution methods suffer from two drawbacks: substantial computational cost in upscaling an entire large image, and the introduction of extraneous or potentially detrimental information for downstream computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Tianyi Zhang , Kishore Kasichainula , Yaoxin Zhuo , Baoxin Li , Jae-sun Seo , Yu Cao

Different tasks in the computational pipeline of single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) require enhancing the quality of the highly noisy raw images. To this end, we develop an efficient algorithm for signal enhancement of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-06 Guy Sharon , Yoel Shkolnisky , Tamir Bendory