NDLI: Single image super-resolution using adaptive domain transformation

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Singh, A. Ahuja, N.
Copyright Year	2013
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA (Singh, A.; Ahuja, N.)
Abstract	In this paper we propose a new image domain prior term for regularizing the super-resolution reconstruction algorithm. This term encourages preserving the local ramp structure around edges, in the reconstruction algorithm. Ramp at a pixel is defined as the steepest sequence of monotonically increasing (or decreasing) pixels among all feasible directions around the pixel. As described in previous work, ramp based modeling is a richer characterization of local image structure than conventional gradients. Our proposed ramp-preserving constraint image is obtained by first running an accurate segmentation algorithm (which is itself obtained by ramp based modeling) on the low resolution image. We then perform a domain transformation of the pixels belonging to the steepest ramps at the edge pixels, in order to preserve sharpness. The resulting non-uniformly spaced image is then upscaled to a uniform, high resolution grid, using an edge preserving non-uniform interpolation scheme. This image is then used both as the prior constraint as well as the initial guess for the iterative super-resolution reconstruction algorithm. Our results compare favorably to the classical back-projection algorithm as well as newer methods which use learning based gradient domain priors.
Starting Page	947
Ending Page	951
File Size	9950908
Page Count	5
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781479923410
DOI	10.1109/ICIP.2013.6738196
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2013-09-15
Publisher Place	Australia
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Image edge detection Image resolution Interpolation Image segmentation Vectors Image reconstruction Kernel regularization Super-resolution image prior segmentation
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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