Resolution-invariant coding for continuous image super-resolution

  • Authors:
  • Jinjun Wang;Shenghuo Zhu

  • Affiliations:
  • Epson Research and Development, Inc., 2580 Orchard Parkway, San Jose, CA 95131, United States;NEC Laboratories America, Inc., 10080 N. Wolfe Road, Cupertino, CA 95014, United States

  • Venue:
  • Neurocomputing
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

The paper presents the resolution-invariant image representation (@?IIR) framework. It applies sparse-coding with multi-resolution codebook to learn resolution-invariant sparse representations of local patches. An input image can be reconstructed to higher resolution at not only discrete integer scales, as that in many existing super-resolution works, but also continuous scales, which functions similar to 2-D image interpolation. The @?IIR framework includes the methods of building a multi-resolution bases set from training images, learning the optimal sparse resolution-invariant representation of an image, and reconstructing the missing high-frequency information at continuous resolution level. Both theoretical and experimental validations of the resolution invariance property are presented in the paper. Objective comparison and subjective evaluation show that the @?IIR framework based image resolution enhancement method outperforms existing methods in various aspects.