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Image Super-Resolution With Parametric Sparse Model Learning

Yongbo Li,W. Dong,Xuemei Xie,Guangming Shi,Jinjian Wu,Xin Li

Published 2018 in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

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Recovering a high-resolution (HR) image from its low-resolution (LR) version is an ill-posed inverse problem. Learning accurate prior of HR images is of great importance to solve this inverse problem. Existing super-resolution (SR) methods either learn a non-parametric image prior from training data (a large set of LR/HR patch pairs) or estimate a parametric prior from the LR image analytically. Both methods have their limitations: the former lacks flexibility when dealing with different SR settings; while the latter often fails to adapt to spatially varying image structures. In this paper, we propose to take a hybrid approach toward image SR by combining those two lines of ideas-that is, a parametric sparse prior of HR images is learned from the training set as well as the input LR image. By exploiting the strengths of both worlds, we can more accurately recover the sparse codes and therefore HR image patches than conventional sparse coding approaches. Experimental results show that the proposed hybrid SR method significantly outperforms existing model-based SR methods and is highly competitive to current state-of-the-art learning-based SR methods in terms of both subjective and objective image qualities.

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