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arXiv:1501.00092cs.CV

Image Super-Resolution Using Deep Convolutional Networks

Chao Dong, Chen Change Loy, Kaiming He, Xiaoou Tang

Abstract

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 takes the low-resolution image as the input and outputs the high-resolution one. We further show that traditional sparse-coding-based SR methods can also be viewed as a deep convolutional network. But unlike traditional methods that handle each component separately, our method jointly optimizes all layers. Our deep CNN has a lightweight structure, yet demonstrates state-of-the-art restoration quality, and achieves fast speed for practical on-line usage. We explore different network structures and parameter settings to achieve trade-offs between performance and speed. Moreover, we extend our network to cope with three color channels simultaneously, and show better overall reconstruction quality.

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14 pages, 14 figures, journal
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cs.CVComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition cs.NENeural and Evolutionary Computing

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    • I think it's important to note that all of these methods have been largely superseded by deep learning techniques. For example, we can now directly learn algorithms such as gradient descent[1] and classical inverse problems like superresolution are solvable with deep networks…

      digitalemble72View on HNParent context

    • Here's a list of various image interpolation techniques: - http://www.ifp.illinois.edu/~jyang29/papers/chap1.pdf * Image super-resolution: Historical overview and future challenges - http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/publications/papers/pickup08... * Machine Learning in…

      ingenterView on HNParent context

    • They aren't. They compare to techniques "A+" from R. Timofte, V. De Smet, and L. Van Gool, “A+: Adjusted anchored neighborhood regression for fast super-resolution" http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/~timofter/ACCV2014_ID820_SUPPLE... and "SRCNN" C. Dong, C. C. Loy, K. He, and X.…

      lotyrinView on HNParent context

    • https://github.com/nagadomi/waifu2x Here's a previous project that attempted this as well. https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.00092

      hatsunearuView on HNParent context

    • Here's a list of various image interpolation techniques, with similar goal: - http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~vision/SingleImageSR.html - http://chiranjivi.tripod.com/EDITut.html - http://www.tecnick.com/pagefiles/appunti/iNEDI_tesi_Nicola_A...…

      ingenterView on HNParent context

    • FWIW, waifu2x was inspired by this paper from researchers at Chinese University of Hong Kong and Microsoft Research Asia http://arxiv.org/abs/1501.00092v3 waifu2x is a great demonstration of this approach applied to a specific domain. By coincidence, Flipboard's DNN approach was…

      buymorechuckView on HNParent context

    • There is a more recent version of this paper published here: http://arxiv.org/abs/1501.00092v3 At Flipboard, we did not have time to do a full comparison of related upscaling research, but we were happy with the low amount of error our CNN achieved.

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