Deep Iterative Residual Convolutional Network for Single Image Super-Resolution
This work addresses efficiency and performance issues in super-resolution for image processing applications, representing an incremental improvement over existing deep learning methods.
The paper tackles the problem of single image super-resolution by proposing a deep iterative residual convolutional network that reduces the need for many trainable parameters and large training data, achieving improved results on various benchmarks compared to state-of-the-art methods.
Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have recently achieved great success for single image super-resolution (SISR) task due to their powerful feature representation capabilities. The most recent deep learning based SISR methods focus on designing deeper / wider models to learn the non-linear mapping between low-resolution (LR) inputs and high-resolution (HR) outputs. These existing SR methods do not take into account the image observation (physical) model and thus require a large number of network's trainable parameters with a great volume of training data. To address these issues, we propose a deep Iterative Super-Resolution Residual Convolutional Network (ISRResCNet) that exploits the powerful image regularization and large-scale optimization techniques by training the deep network in an iterative manner with a residual learning approach. Extensive experimental results on various super-resolution benchmarks demonstrate that our method with a few trainable parameters improves the results for different scaling factors in comparison with the state-of-art methods.