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Poster

Learning Parametric Sparse Models for Image Super-Resolution

Yongbo Li · Weisheng Dong · Xuemei Xie · GUANGMING Shi · Xin Li · Donglai Xu

Area 5+6+7+8 #143

Keywords: [ (Application) Computer Vision ] [ (Other) Applications ] [ Sparsity and Feature Selection ]


Abstract:

Learning accurate prior knowledge of natural images is of great importance for single image super-resolution (SR). Existing SR methods either learn the prior from the low/high-resolution patch pairs or estimate the prior models from the input low-resolution (LR) image. Specifically, high-frequency details are learned in the former methods. Though effective, they are heuristic and have limitations in dealing with blurred LR images; while the latter suffers from the limitations of frequency aliasing. In this paper, we propose to combine those two lines of ideas for image super-resolution. More specifically, the parametric sparse prior of the desirable high-resolution (HR) image patches are learned from both the input low-resolution (LR) image and a training image dataset. With the learned sparse priors, the sparse codes and thus the HR image patches can be accurately recovered by solving a sparse coding problem. Experimental results show that the proposed SR method outperforms existing state-of-the-art methods in terms of both subjective and objective image qualities.

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