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Recent improvements in convolutional neural network (CNN)-based single image super-resolution (SISR) methods rely heavily on fabricating network architectures, rather than finding a suitable training algorithm other than simply minimizing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-23 SeongUk Park , Nojun Kwak

Face Super-Resolution (SR) is a subfield of the SR domain that specifically targets the reconstruction of face images. The main challenge of face SR is to restore essential facial features without distortion. We propose a novel face SR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Deokyun Kim , Minseon Kim , Gihyun Kwon , Dae-Shik Kim

In this paper, we propose a novel Feature Decomposition and Reconstruction Learning (FDRL) method for effective facial expression recognition. We view the expression information as the combination of the shared information (expression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Delian Ruan , Yan Yan , Shenqi Lai , Zhenhua Chai , Chunhua Shen , Hanzi Wang

Existing face super-resolution (FSR) methods have made significant advancements, but they primarily super-resolve face with limited visual information, original pixel-wise space in particular, commonly overlooking the pluralistic clues,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Chenyang Wang , Wenjie An , Kui Jiang , Xianming Liu , Junjun Jiang

Blind Face Restoration (BFR) aims to recover high-quality face images from low-quality ones and usually resorts to facial priors for improving restoration performance. However, current methods still suffer from two major difficulties: 1)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Yanjiang Yu , Puyang Zhang , Kaihao Zhang , Wenhan Luo , Changsheng Li , Ye Yuan , Guoren Wang

Single-Image-Super-Resolution (SISR) is a classical computer vision problem that has benefited from the recent advancements in deep learning methods, especially the advancements of convolutional neural networks (CNN). Although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Mustafa Ayazoglu

Although some convolutional neural networks (CNNs) based super-resolution (SR) algorithms yield good visual performances on single images recently. Most of them focus on perfect perceptual quality but ignore specific needs of subsequent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Bin Wang , Tao Lu , Yanduo Zhang

Recently, single gray/RGB image super-resolution reconstruction task has been extensively studied and made significant progress by leveraging the advanced machine learning techniques based on deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs).…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-26 Junjun Jiang , He Sun , Xianming Liu , Jiayi Ma

Recently, deep learning based video super-resolution (SR) methods have achieved promising performance. To simultaneously exploit the spatial and temporal information of videos, employing 3-dimensional (3D) convolutions is a natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Sheng Li , Fengxiang He , Bo Du , Lefei Zhang , Yonghao Xu , Dacheng Tao

Image super-resolution (SR) is an effective way to enhance the spatial resolution and detail information of remote sensing images, to obtain a superior visual quality. As SR is severely ill-conditioned, effective image priors are necessary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Jing Sun , Huanfeng Shen , Qiangqiang Yuan , Liangpei Zhang

High resolution Magnetic Resonance (MR) images are desired for accurate diagnostics. In practice, image resolution is restricted by factors like hardware and processing constraints. Recently, deep learning methods have been shown to produce…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-08 Venkateswararao Cherukuri , Tiantong Guo , Steve. J. Schiff , Vishal Monga

Face Restoration (FR) aims to restore High-Quality (HQ) faces from Low-Quality (LQ) input images, which is a domain-specific image restoration problem in the low-level computer vision area. The early face restoration methods mainly use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Tao Wang , Kaihao Zhang , Jiankang Deng , Tong Lu , Wei Liu , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Facial expression recognition (FER) systems in low-resolution settings face significant challenges in accurately identifying expressions due to the loss of fine-grained facial details. This limitation is especially problematic for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Syed Sameen Ahmad Rizvi , Soham Kumar , Aryan Seth , Pratik Narang

The most of CNN based super-resolution (SR) methods assume that the degradation is known (\eg, bicubic). These methods will suffer a severe performance drop when the degradation is different from their assumption. Therefore, some approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Bin Xia , Yapeng Tian , Yulun Zhang , Yucheng Hang , Wenming Yang , Qingmin Liao

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a widely-used technique that utilizes large networks to improve the performance of compact models. Previous KD approaches usually aim to guide the student to mimic the teacher's behavior completely in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Yuge Huang , Jiaxiang Wu , Xingkun Xu , Shouhong Ding

Deep neural networks have exhibited promising performance in image super-resolution (SR) due to the power in learning the non-linear mapping from low-resolution (LR) images to high-resolution (HR) images. However, most deep learning methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-20 Yong Guo , Qi Chen , Jian Chen , Junzhou Huang , Yanwu Xu , Jiezhang Cao , Peilin Zhao , Mingkui Tan

In this paper we address the problem of hallucinating high-resolution facial images from unaligned low-resolution inputs at high magnification factors. We approach the problem with convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Klemen Grm , Simon Dobrišek , Walter J. Scheirer , Vitomir Štruc

Super-resolution reconstruction (SRR) is a process aimed at enhancing spatial resolution of images, either from a single observation, based on the learned relation between low and high resolution, or from multiple images presenting the same…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Michal Kawulok , Pawel Benecki , Szymon Piechaczek , Krzysztof Hrynczenko , Daniel Kostrzewa , Jakub Nalepa

We present a novel approach to leverage prior knowledge encapsulated in pre-trained text-to-image diffusion models for blind super-resolution (SR). Specifically, by employing our time-aware encoder, we can achieve promising restoration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Jianyi Wang , Zongsheng Yue , Shangchen Zhou , Kelvin C. K. Chan , Chen Change Loy

High resolution magnetic resonance (MR) images are desired for accurate diagnostics. In practice, image resolution is restricted by factors like hardware, cost and processing constraints. Recently, deep learning methods have been shown to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Venkateswararao Cherukuri , Tiantong Guo , Steven J. Schiff , Vishal Monga