Super-resolution texture synthesis using stochastic PAR/NL model

  • Authors:
  • Byung Tae Oh;C. -C. Jay Kuo

  • Affiliations:
  • Multimedia Lab, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, South Korea;Ming Hsieh, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, USA

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Super-resolution texture synthesis using a locally-adaptive stochastic signal model is investigated in this work. The 2D random texture is modeled by a piecewise auto-regressive (PAR) process whose parameters are determined by a non-local (NL) training procedure and, consequently, it is called the PAR/NL model. Unlike previous work that applies the NL scheme to image pixels directly, the proposed PAR/NL scheme applies the NL scheme to PAR model parameters by assuming that these parameters are self-similar. Furthermore, we describe a probabilistic method for PAR/NL model computation using the maximum a posteriori (MAP) and the expectation-maximization (EM) principles. Experimental results are given to demonstrate the synthesis performance of the proposed PAR/NL technique, which can boost texture detail and eliminate the blurring artifact perceptually.