Single-frame image super-resolution through contourlet learning

  • Authors:
  • C. V. Jiji;Subhasis Chaudhuri

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India;Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India

  • Venue:
  • EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We propose a learning-based, single-image super-resolution reconstruction technique using the contourlet transform, which is capable of capturing the smoothness along contoursmaking use of directional decompositions. The contourlet coefficients at finer scales of the unknown high-resolution image are learned locally from a set of high-resolution training images, the inverse contourlet transform of which recovers the super-resolved image. In effect, we learn the high-resolution representation of an oriented edge primitive from the training data. Our experiments show that the proposed approach outperforms standard interpolation techniques as well as a standard (Cartesian) wavelet-based learning both visually and in terms of the PSNR values, especially for images with arbitrarily oriented edges.