A computationally efficient superresolution image reconstruction algorithm

  • Authors:
  • Nhat Nguyen;P. Milanfar;G. Golub

  • Affiliations:
  • KLA-Tencor Corp., Milpitas, CA;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Superresolution reconstruction produces a high-resolution image from a set of low-resolution images. Previous iterative methods for superresolution had not adequately addressed the computational and numerical issues for this ill-conditioned and typically underdetermined large scale problem. We propose efficient block circulant preconditioners for solving the Tikhonov-regularized superresolution problem by the conjugate gradient method. We also extend to underdetermined systems the derivation of the generalized cross-validation method for automatic calculation of regularization parameters. The effectiveness of our preconditioners and regularization techniques is demonstrated with superresolution results for a simulated sequence and a forward looking infrared (FLIR) camera image sequence