Plenoptic cameras usually sacrifice the spatial resolution of their SAIs to acquire geometry information from different viewpoints. Several methods have been proposed to mitigate such spatio-angular trade-off, but seldom make use of the structural properties of the light field (LF) data efficiently. In this paper, we propose a novel high-order residual network to learn the geometric features hierarchically from the LF for reconstruction. An important component in the proposed network is the high-order residual block (HRB), which learns the local geometric features by considering the information from all input views. After fully obtaining the local features learned from each HRB, our model extracts the representative geometric features for spatio-angular upsampling through the global residual learning. Additionally, a refinement network is followed to further enhance the spatial details by minimizing a perceptual loss. Compared with previous work, our model is tailored to the rich structure inherent in the LF, and therefore can reduce the artifacts near non-Lambertian and occlusion regions. Experimental results show that our approach enables high-quality reconstruction even in challenging regions and outperforms state-of-the-art single image or LF reconstruction methods with both quantitative measurements and visual evaluation.
Super-Resolution convolutional neural networks have recently demonstrated high-quality restoration for single images. However, existing algorithms often require very deep architectures and long training times. Furthermore, current convolutional neural networks for super-resolution are unable to exploit features at multiple scales and weigh them equally, limiting their learning capability. In this exposition, we present a compact and accurate super-resolution algorithm namely, Densely Residual Laplacian Network (DRLN). The proposed network employs cascading residual on the residual structure to…
Massachusetts Institute of Technology（麻省理工学院）；Phillips Exeter Academy（菲利普斯埃克塞特学院）
FREDSR is a GAN variant that aims to outperform traditional GAN models in specific tasks such as Single Image Super Resolution with extreme parameter efficiency at the cost of per-dataset generalizeability. FREDSR integrates fast Fourier transformation, residual prediction, diffusive discriminators, etc to achieve strong performance in comparisons to other models on the UHDSR4K dataset for Single Image 3x Super Resolution from 360p and 720p with only 37000 parameters. The model follows the characteristics of the given dataset, resulting in lower generalizeability but higher performance on task…
Recently, the deep convolutional neural network (CNN) has made remarkable progress in single image super resolution(SISR). However, blindly using the residual structure and dense structure to extract features from LR images, can cause the network to be bloated and difficult to train. To address these problems, we propose a simple and efficient distilling with residual network(DRN) for SISR. In detail, we propose residual distilling block(RDB) containing two branches, while one branch performs a residual operation and the other branch distills effective information. To further improve efficienc…
Lightweight super resolution networks have extremely importance for real-world applications. In recent years several SR deep learning approaches with outstanding achievement have been introduced by sacrificing memory and computational cost. To overcome this problem, a novel lightweight super resolution network is proposed, which improves the SOTA performance in lightweight SR and performs roughly similar to computationally expensive networks. Multi-Path Residual Network designs with a set of Residual concatenation Blocks stacked with Adaptive Residual Blocks: ($i$) to adaptively extract inform…
Osaka Electro-Communication University（大阪电气通信大学）；Ritsumeikan University（立命馆大学）；Shiga University of Medical Science（滋贺医科大学）
Deep learning techniques have led to state-of-the-art image super resolution with natural images. Normally, pairs of high-resolution and low-resolution images are used to train the deep learning models. These techniques have also been applied to medical image super-resolution. The characteristics of medical images differ significantly from natural images in several ways. First, it is difficult to obtain high-resolution images for training in real clinical applications due to the limitations of imaging systems and clinical requirements. Second, other modal high-resolution images are available (…
Convolutional neural networks are the most successful models in single image super-resolution. Deeper networks, residual connections, and attention mechanisms have further improved their performance. However, these strategies often improve the reconstruction performance at the expense of considerably increasing the computational cost. This paper introduces a new lightweight super-resolution model based on an efficient method for residual feature and attention aggregation. In order to make an efficient use of the residual features, these are hierarchically aggregated into feature banks for post…
Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have recently achieved great success for single image super-resolution (SISR) task due to their powerful feature representation capabilities. The most recent deep learning based SISR methods focus on designing deeper / wider models to learn the non-linear mapping between low-resolution (LR) inputs and high-resolution (HR) outputs. These existing SR methods do not take into account the image observation (physical) model and thus require a large number of network's trainable parameters with a great volume of training data. To address these issues, we pro…
Most current deep learning based single image super-resolution (SISR) methods focus on designing deeper / wider models to learn the non-linear mapping between low-resolution (LR) inputs and the high-resolution (HR) outputs from a large number of paired (LR/HR) training data. They usually take as assumption that the LR image is a bicubic down-sampled version of the HR image. However, such degradation process is not available in real-world settings i.e. inherent sensor noise, stochastic noise, compression artifacts, possible mismatch between image degradation process and camera device. It reduce…
Deep learning-based hyperspectral image super-resolution (SR) methods have achieved great success recently. However, most existing models can not effectively explore spatial information and spectral information between bands simultaneously, obtaining relatively low performance. To address this issue, in this paper, we propose a novel spectral-spatial residual network for hyperspectral image super-resolution (SSRNet). Our method can effectively explore spatial-spectral information by using 3D convolution instead of 2D convolution, which enables the network to better extract potential informatio…
Deep learning methods have shown outstanding performance in many applications, including single-image super-resolution (SISR). With residual connection architecture, deeply stacked convolutional neural networks provide a substantial performance boost for SISR, but their huge parameters and computational loads are impractical for real-world applications. Thus, designing lightweight models with acceptable performance is one of the major tasks in current SISR research. The objective of lightweight network design is to balance a computational load and reconstruction performance. Most of the previo…
Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch（伊斯兰阿扎德大学科学与研究分支）；Amirkabir University of Technology（阿米尔卡比尔理工大学）；University of Tabriz（大不里士大学）；Singapore University of Technology and Design（新加坡科技设计大学）
Recently, convolutional neural networks have shown promising performance for single-image super-resolution. In this paper, we propose Deep Artifact-Free Residual (DAFR) network which uses the merits of both residual learning and usage of ground-truth image as target. Our framework uses a deep model to extract the high-frequency information which is necessary for high-quality image reconstruction. We use a skip-connection to feed the low-resolution image to the network before the image reconstruction. In this way, we are able to use the ground-truth images as target and avoid misleading the net…
Harbin Institute of Technology（哈尔滨工业大学）；Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院深圳先进技术研究院）；Nanyang Technological University（南洋理工大学）；Shenzhen University（深圳大学）；Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence（因赛普申人工智能研究院）
Magnetic Resonance Imaging(MRI) has been widely used in clinical application and pathology research by helping doctors make more accurate diagnoses. On the other hand, accurate diagnosis by MRI remains a great challenge as images obtained via present MRI techniques usually have low resolutions. Improving MRI image quality and resolution thus becomes a critically important task. This paper presents an innovative Coupled-Projection Residual Network (CPRN) for MRI super-resolution. The CPRN consists of two complementary sub-networks: a shallow network and a deep network that keep the content cons…
We present a deep residual network-based generative model for single image super-resolution (SISR) of underwater imagery for use by autonomous underwater robots. We also provide an adversarial training pipeline for learning SISR from paired data. In order to supervise the training, we formulate an objective function that evaluates the \textit{perceptual quality} of an image based on its global content, color, and local style information. Additionally, we present USR-248, a large-scale dataset of three sets of underwater images of 'high' (640x480) and 'low' (80x60, 160x120, and 320x240) spatial…
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China（电子科技大学）
Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs) have achieved impressive performance in Single Image Super-Resolution (SISR). To further improve the performance, existing CNN-based methods generally focus on designing deeper architecture of the network. However, we argue blindly increasing network's depth is not the most sensible way. In this paper, we propose a novel end-to-end Residual Neuron Attention Networks (RNAN) for more efficient and effective SISR. Structurally, our RNAN is a sequential integration of the well-designed Global Context-enhanced Residual Groups (GCRGs), which extracts super-…
Tsinghua University（清华大学）；Brigham and Women’s Hospital（布莱根妇女医院）；Harvard Medical School（哈佛医学院）
Deformable image registration (DIR) is essential for many image-guided therapies. Recently, deep learning approaches have gained substantial popularity and success in DIR. Most deep learning approaches use the so-called mono-stream "high-to-low, low-to-high" network structure, and can achieve satisfactory overall registration results. However, accurate alignments for some severely deformed local regions, which are crucial for pinpointing surgical targets, are often overlooked. Consequently, these approaches are not sensitive to some hard-to-align regions, e.g., intra-patient registration of de…
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 super-resolution on a demosaiced images simply exacerbates the artifacts introduced by demosaicing. In this paper, we show that such accumulation of errors can be easily averted by jointly performing demosaicing and super-resolution. To this end, we propose a deep residual network for learning an end-to-end mapping between Bayer images and high-resolution images. By traini…
Recent advances in single image super-resolution (SISR) explored the power of convolutional neural network (CNN) to achieve a better performance. Despite the great success of CNN-based methods, it is not easy to apply these methods to edge devices due to the requirement of heavy computation. To solve this problem, various fast and lightweight CNN models have been proposed. The information distillation network is one of the state-of-the-art methods, which adopts the channel splitting operation to extract distilled features. However, it is not clear enough how this operation helps in the design …
National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences（国立计算机与新兴科学大学）
Recently, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have shown promising performance in super-resolution (SR). However, these methods operate primarily on Low Resolution (LR) inputs for memory efficiency but this limits, as we demonstrate, their ability to (i) model high frequency information; and (ii) smoothly translate from LR to High Resolution (HR) space. To this end, we propose a novel Incremental Residual Learning (IRL) framework to address these mentioned issues. In IRL, first we select a typical SR pre-trained network as a master branch. Next we sequentially train and add residual branches …
The recent advances in deep learning indicate significant progress in the field of single image super-resolution. With the advent of these techniques, high-resolution image with high peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR) and excellent perceptual quality can be reconstructed. The major challenges associated with existing deep convolutional neural networks are their computational complexity and time; the increasing depth of the networks, often result in high space complexity. To alleviate these issues, we developed an innovative shallow residual feature representative network (SRFRN) that uses a bic…
Convolutional neural network (CNN) depth is of crucial importance for image super-resolution (SR). However, we observe that deeper networks for image SR are more difficult to train. The low-resolution inputs and features contain abundant low-frequency information, which is treated equally across channels, hence hindering the representational ability of CNNs. To solve these problems, we propose the very deep residual channel attention networks (RCAN). Specifically, we propose a residual in residual (RIR) structure to form very deep network, which consists of several residual groups with long sk…
Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院深圳先进技术研究院）；University of Macau（澳门大学）；Shanghai AI Laboratory（上海人工智能实验室）；The University of Sydney（悉尼大学）
Recent advances in single image super-resolution (SISR) have achieved extraordinary performance, but the computational cost is too heavy to apply in edge devices. To alleviate this problem, many novel and effective solutions have been proposed. Convolutional neural network (CNN) with the attention mechanism has attracted increasing attention due to its efficiency and effectiveness. However, there is still redundancy in the convolution operation. In this paper, we propose Blueprint Separable Residual Network (BSRN) containing two efficient designs. One is the usage of blueprint separable convol…
In recent years, deep learning methods have been successfully applied to single-image super-resolution tasks. Despite their great performances, deep learning methods cannot be easily applied to real-world applications due to the requirement of heavy computation. In this paper, we address this issue by proposing an accurate and lightweight deep network for image super-resolution. In detail, we design an architecture that implements a cascading mechanism upon a residual network. We also present variant models of the proposed cascading residual network to further improve efficiency. Our extensive…
Politecnico di Torino（都灵理工大学）；PIC4SeR（都灵理工大学跨部门服务机器人中心）
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been consistently proved state-of-the-art results in image Super-Resolution (SR), representing an exceptional opportunity for the remote sensing field to extract further information and knowledge from captured data. However, most of the works published in the literature have been focusing on the Single-Image Super-Resolution problem so far. At present, satellite based remote sensing platforms offer huge data availability with high temporal resolution and low spatial resolution. In this context, the presented research proposes a novel residual attention…
Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have obtained remarkable performance in single image super-resolution (SISR). However, very deep networks can suffer from training difficulty and hardly achieve further performance gain. There are two main trends to solve that problem: improving the network architecture for better propagation of features through large number of layers and designing an attention mechanism for selecting most informative features. Recent SISR solutions propose advanced attention and self-attention mechanisms. However, constructing a network to use an attention block in th…
Recent research on super-resolution has progressed with the development of deep convolutional neural networks (DCNN). In particular, residual learning techniques exhibit improved performance. In this paper, we develop an enhanced deep super-resolution network (EDSR) with performance exceeding those of current state-of-the-art SR methods. The significant performance improvement of our model is due to optimization by removing unnecessary modules in conventional residual networks. The performance is further improved by expanding the model size while we stabilize the training procedure. We also pr…
Image super-resolution and denoising are two important tasks in image processing that can lead to improvement in image quality. Image super-resolution is the task of mapping a low resolution image to a high resolution image whereas denoising is the task of learning a clean image from a noisy input. We propose and train a single deep learning network that we term as SuRDCNN (super-resolution and denoising convolutional neural network), to perform these two tasks simultaneously . Our model nearly replicates the architecture of existing state-of-the-art deep learning models for super-resolution a…
National Pingtung University of Science and Technology（国立屏东科技大学）；National Cheng Kung University（国立成功大学）
Deep learning-based single image super-resolution enables very fast and high-visual-quality reconstruction. Recently, an enhanced super-resolution based on generative adversarial network (ESRGAN) has achieved excellent performance in terms of both qualitative and quantitative quality of the reconstructed high-resolution image. In this paper, we propose to add one more shortcut between two dense-blocks, as well as add shortcut between two convolution layers inside a dense-block. With this simple strategy of adding more shortcuts in the proposed network, it enables a faster learning process as t…
The extraction and proper utilization of convolution neural network (CNN) features have a significant impact on the performance of image super-resolution (SR). Although CNN features contain both the spatial and channel information, current deep techniques on SR often suffer to maximize performance due to using either the spatial or channel information. Moreover, they integrate such information within a deep or wide network rather than exploiting all the available features, eventually resulting in high computational complexity. To address these issues, we present a binarized feature fusion (BFF…
Global Spatial-Temporal Information-based Residual ConvLSTM for Video Space-Time Super-Resolution
School of Control Science and Engineering, Shandong University（山东大学控制科学与工程学院）；School of Software, Shandong University（山东大学软件学院）；School of Computer Science and Technology, Shandong University（山东大学计算机科学与技术学院）；School of Communication and Information Engineering, Shanghai University（上海大学通信与信息工程学院）；School of Engineering and Sustainable Development, De Montfort University（德蒙福特大学工程与可持续发展学院）
Beijing Technology and Business University（北京工商大学）
Image super-resolution is a challenging task and has attracted increasing attention in research and industrial communities. In this paper, we propose a novel end-to-end Attention-based DenseNet with Residual Deconvolution named as ADRD. In our ADRD, a weighted dense block, in which the current layer receives weighted features from all previous levels, is proposed to capture valuable features rely in dense layers adaptively. And a novel spatial attention module is presented to generate a group of attentive maps for emphasizing informative regions. In addition, we design an innovative strategy t…
Wuhan University（武汉大学）；The University of Sydney（悉尼大学）
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 approach. However, straight utilizing 3D convolutions may lead to an excessively high computational complexity which restricts the depth of video SR models and thus undermine the performance. In this paper, we present a novel fast spatio-temporal residual network (FSTRN) to adopt 3D convolutions for the video SR task in order to enhance the performance while maintai…
The University of Sydney（悉尼大学）；Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab（华为诺亚方舟实验室）；Huawei CBG（华为消费者业务集团）
Although remarkable progress has been made on single image super-resolution due to the revival of deep convolutional neural networks, deep learning methods are confronted with the challenges of computation and memory consumption in practice, especially for mobile devices. Focusing on this issue, we propose an efficient residual dense block search algorithm with multiple objectives to hunt for fast, lightweight and accurate networks for image super-resolution. Firstly, to accelerate super-resolution network, we exploit the variation of feature scale adequately with the proposed efficient residu…
K.N. Toosi University of Technology（K.N.图西理工大学）；University of Illinois at Chicago（伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校）
This paper introduces a framework for super-resolution of scalable video based on compressive sensing and sparse representation of residual frames in reconnaissance and surveillance applications. We exploit efficient compressive sampling and sparse reconstruction algorithms to super-resolve the video sequence with respect to different compression rates. We use the sparsity of residual information in residual frames as the key point in devising our framework. Moreover, a controlling factor as the compressibility threshold to control the complexity-performance trade-off is defined. Numerical exp…
School of Computer and Information Technology, Shanxi University（山西大学计算机与信息技术学院）；Harbin Institute of Technology（哈尔滨工业大学）
Recent years have witnessed great success of convolutional neural network (CNN) for various problems both in low and high level visions. Especially noteworthy is the residual network which was originally proposed to handle high-level vision problems and enjoys several merits. This paper aims to extend the merits of residual network, such as skip connection induced fast training, for a typical low-level vision problem, i.e., single image super-resolution. In general, the two main challenges of existing deep CNN for supper-resolution lie in the gradient exploding/vanishing problem and large numb…
Sungkyunkwan University（成均馆大学）；Hana Institute of Technology（哈娜理工学院）
In this paper, we propose Edge Profile Super Resolution(EPSR) method to preserve structure information and to restore texture. We make EPSR by stacking modified Fractal Residual Network(mFRN) structures hierarchically and repeatedly. mFRN is made up of lots of Residual Edge Profile Blocks(REPBs) consisting of three different modules such as Residual Efficient Channel Attention Block(RECAB) module, Edge Profile(EP) module, and Context Network(CN) module. RECAB produces more informative features with high frequency components. From the feature, EP module produce structure informed features by ge…
School of Electronic and Information, Wuhan University（武汉大学电子信息学院）
We propose a simple yet effective model for Single Image Super-Resolution (SISR), by combining the merits of Residual Learning and Convolutional Sparse Coding (RL-CSC). Our model is inspired by the Learned Iterative Shrinkage-Threshold Algorithm (LISTA). We extend LISTA to its convolutional version and build the main part of our model by strictly following the convolutional form, which improves the network's interpretability. Specifically, the convolutional sparse codings of input feature maps are learned in a recursive manner, and high-frequency information can be recovered from these CSCs. M…
Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications（南京邮电大学）；The Chinese University of Hong Kong（香港中文大学）；Kyushu Institute of Technology（九州工业大学）；National Institute of Informatics（国立信息学研究所）
Convolutional neural networks based single-image super-resolution (SISR) has made great progress in recent years. However, it is difficult to apply these methods to real-world scenarios due to the computational and memory cost. Meanwhile, how to take full advantage of the intermediate features under the constraints of limited parameters and calculations is also a huge challenge. To alleviate these issues, we propose a lightweight yet efficient Feature Distillation Interaction Weighted Network (FDIWN). Specifically, FDIWN utilizes a series of specially designed Feature Shuffle Weighted Groups (…
GRFormer: Grouped Residual Self-Attention for Lightweight Single Image Super-Resolution
Tsinghua University（清华大学）；Swinburne University of Technology（斯威本科技大学）；National University of Singapore（新加坡国立大学）；University of International Business and Economics（对外经济贸易大学）
School of Software, Northwestern Polytechnical University（西北工业大学软件学院）；National Engineering Laboratory for Integrated Aero-Space-Ground-Ocean Big Data Application Technology（空天地一体化大数据应用技术国家工程实验室）；Research & Development Institute, Northwestern Polytechnical University（西北工业大学研究院）；School of Economics and Management, Harbin Institute of Technology at Weihai（哈尔滨工业大学（威海）经济管理学院）；Tencent AI lab（腾讯人工智能实验室）；School of Computing, University of Portsmouth（朴茨茅斯大学计算学院）
Peking University（北京大学）；National University of Singapore（新加坡国立大学）；Snapchat Inc.（Snapchat公司）
In this work, we consider the image super-resolution (SR) problem. The main challenge of image SR is to recover high-frequency details of a low-resolution (LR) image that are important for human perception. To address this essentially ill-posed problem, we introduce a Deep Edge Guided REcurrent rEsidual~(DEGREE) network to progressively recover the high-frequency details. Different from most of existing methods that aim at predicting high-resolution (HR) images directly, DEGREE investigates an alternative route to recover the difference between a pair of LR and HR images by recurrent residual …
UESTC（电子科技大学）；Northeastern University（东北大学）；Sichuan University of Science and Engineering（四川轻化工大学）
Most current image super-resolution (SR) methods based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) use residual learning in network structural design, which favors to effective back propagation and hence improves SR performance by increasing model scale. However, residual networks suffer from representational redundancy by introducing identity paths that impede the full exploitation of model capacity. Besides, blindly enlarging network scale can cause more problems in model training, even with residual learning. In this paper, a novel fully channel-concatenated network (FC$^2$N) is presented to ma…
Recently, many works have designed wider and deeper networks to achieve higher image super-resolution performance. Despite their outstanding performance, they still suffer from high computational resources, preventing them from directly applying to embedded devices. To reduce the computation resources and maintain performance, we propose a novel Ghost Residual Attention Network (GRAN) for efficient super-resolution. This paper introduces Ghost Residual Attention Block (GRAB) groups to overcome the drawbacks of the standard convolutional operation, i.e., redundancy of the intermediate feature. …
With exploiting contextual information over large image regions in an efficient way, the deep convolutional neural network has shown an impressive performance for single image super-resolution (SR). In this paper, we propose a deep convolutional network by cascading the well-designed inception-residual blocks within the deep Laplacian pyramid framework to progressively restore the missing high-frequency details of high-resolution (HR) images. By optimizing our network structure, the trainable depth of the proposed network gains a significant improvement, which in turn improves super-resolving …
Deep learning based approaches has achieved great performance in single image super-resolution (SISR). However, recent advances in efficient super-resolution focus on reducing the number of parameters and FLOPs, and they aggregate more powerful features by improving feature utilization through complex layer connection strategies. These structures may not be necessary to achieve higher running speed, which makes them difficult to be deployed to resource-constrained devices. In this work, we propose a novel Residual Local Feature Network (RLFN). The main idea is using three convolutional layers …
Deep convolutional neural networks (DCNN) have been widely adopted for research on super resolution recently, however previous work focused mainly on stacking as many layers as possible in their model, in this paper, we present a new perspective regarding to image restoration problems that we can construct the neural network model reflecting the physical significance of the image restoration process, that is, embedding the a priori knowledge of image restoration directly into the structure of our neural network model, we employed a symmetric non-linear colorspace, the sigmoidal transfer, to re…
University of Cambridge（剑桥大学）；Imperial College London（帝国理工学院）；Royal Brompton Hospital（皇家布朗普顿医院）
Super-resolution plays an essential role in medical imaging because it provides an alternative way to achieve high spatial resolutions and image quality with no extra acquisition costs. In the past few decades, the rapid development of deep neural networks has promoted super-resolution performance with novel network architectures, loss functions and evaluation metrics. Specifically, vision transformers dominate a broad range of computer vision tasks, but challenges still exist when applying them to low-level medical image processing tasks. This paper proposes an efficient vision transformer wi…
Simon Fraser University（西蒙弗雷泽大学）；Google Inc.（谷歌公司）；Tencent Technologies（腾讯科技）
Recently deep learning-based image compression has shown the potential to outperform traditional codecs. However, most existing methods train multiple networks for multiple bit rates, which increase the implementation complexity. In this paper, we propose a new variable-rate image compression framework, which employs generalized octave convolutions (GoConv) and generalized octave transposed-convolutions (GoTConv) with built-in generalized divisive normalization (GDN) and inverse GDN (IGDN) layers. Novel GoConv- and GoTConv-based residual blocks are also developed in the encoder and decoder net…
Time-aware UNet and super-resolution deep residual networks for spatial downscaling
Department of Mathematics and Statistics（数学与统计学系）；University of Jyväskylä（于韦斯屈莱大学）；Department of Economic Sciences（经济科学系）；University of Salento（萨伦托大学）；National Centre for HPC, Big Data and Quantum Computing（高性能计算、大数据与量子计算国家中心）；National Biodiversity Future Center（国家生物多样性未来中心）；University of Helsinki（赫尔辛基大学）
IIHR Hydroscience and Engineering, University of Iowa（爱荷华大学IIHR水文科学与工程研究所）；University of Iowa（爱荷华大学）
The temporal and spatial resolution of rainfall data is crucial for environmental modeling studies in which its variability in space and time is considered as a primary factor. Rainfall products from different remote sensing instruments (e.g., radar, satellite) have different space-time resolutions because of the differences in their sensing capabilities and post-processing methods. In this study, we developed a deep learning approach that augments rainfall data with increased time resolutions to complement relatively lower resolution products. We propose a neural network architecture based on…
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, USA（美国东北大学波士顿分校电气与计算机工程系）；Department of Computer Science, University of Rochester, Rochester, USA（美国罗切斯特大学计算机科学系）；College of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University, Boston, USA（美国东北大学波士顿分校计算机与信息科学学院）
A very deep convolutional neural network (CNN) has recently achieved great success for image super-resolution (SR) and offered hierarchical features as well. However, most deep CNN based SR models do not make full use of the hierarchical features from the original low-resolution (LR) images, thereby achieving relatively-low performance. In this paper, we propose a novel residual dense network (RDN) to address this problem in image SR. We fully exploit the hierarchical features from all the convolutional layers. Specifically, we propose residual dense block (RDB) to extract abundant local featu…
Tsinghua University（清华大学）；Shanghai AI Laboratory（上海人工智能实验室）；ETH Zürich（苏黎世联邦理工学院）；ByteDance Inc（字节跳动公司）；University of Texas at Dallas（德克萨斯大学达拉斯分校）
The high computational costs of video super-resolution (VSR) models hinder their deployment on resource-limited devices, (e.g., smartphones and drones). Existing VSR models contain considerable redundant filters, which drag down the inference efficiency. To prune these unimportant filters, we develop a structured pruning scheme called Structured Sparsity Learning (SSL) according to the properties of VSR. In SSL, we design pruning schemes for several key components in VSR models, including residual blocks, recurrent networks, and upsampling networks. Specifically, we develop a Residual Sparsity…
MediaTek Inc.（联发科）；University of Southern California（南加州大学）
A light-weight super-resolution (LSR) method from a single image targeting mobile applications is proposed in this work. LSR predicts the residual image between the interpolated low-resolution (ILR) and high-resolution (HR) images using a self-supervised framework. To lower the computational complexity, LSR does not adopt the end-to-end optimization deep networks. It consists of three modules: 1) generation of a pool of rich and diversified representations in the neighborhood of a target pixel via unsupervised learning, 2) selecting a subset from the representation pool that is most relevant t…
Recently, deep neural networks have achieved impressive performance in terms of both reconstruction accuracy and efficiency for single image super-resolution (SISR). However, the network model of these methods is a fully convolutional neural network, which is limit to exploit the differentiated contextual information over the global region of the input image because of the weight sharing in convolution height and width extent. In this paper, we discuss a new SISR architecture where features are extracted in the low-resolution (LR) space, and then we use a fully connected layer which learns an …
Tsinghua University（清华大学）；New York University（纽约大学）；Huawei Technologies（华为技术有限公司）
Video super-resolution plays an important role in surveillance video analysis and ultra-high-definition video display, which has drawn much attention in both the research and industrial communities. Although many deep learning-based VSR methods have been proposed, it is hard to directly compare these methods since the different loss functions and training datasets have a significant impact on the super-resolution results. In this work, we carefully study and compare three temporal modeling methods (2D CNN with early fusion, 3D CNN with slow fusion and Recurrent Neural Network) for video super-…
