DSMA: Reference-Based Image Super-Resolution Method Based on Dual-View Supervised Learning and Multi-Attention Mechanism

Reference image based super-resolution methods (RefSR) have made rapid and remarkable progress in the field of image super-resolution (SR) in recent years by introducing additional high-resolution (HR) images to enhance the recovery of low-resolution (LR) images. The existing RefSR methods can rely...

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Main Authors: Xin Liu, Jing Li, Tingting Duan, Jiangtao Li, Ye Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2022-01-01
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9772484/
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author Xin Liu
Jing Li
Tingting Duan
Jiangtao Li
Ye Wang
author_facet Xin Liu
Jing Li
Tingting Duan
Jiangtao Li
Ye Wang
author_sort Xin Liu
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description Reference image based super-resolution methods (RefSR) have made rapid and remarkable progress in the field of image super-resolution (SR) in recent years by introducing additional high-resolution (HR) images to enhance the recovery of low-resolution (LR) images. The existing RefSR methods can rely on implicit correspondence matching to transfer the HR texture from the reference image (Ref) to compensate for the information loss in the input image. However, the differences between low-resolution input images and high-resolution reference images still affects the effective utilization of Ref images, so it is an important challenge to make full use of the information in Ref images to improve the SR performance. In this paper, we propose an image super-resolution method based on dual-view supervised learning and multi-attention mechanism (DSMA). It enhances the learning of important detail features of Ref images and weakens the interference of noisy information by introducing the multi-attention mechanism, while employing dual-view supervision to motivate the network to learn more accurate feature representations. Quantitative and qualitative experiments on these benchmarks, i.e., CUFED5, Urban100 and Manga109, show that DSMA outperforms the state-of-the-art baselines with significant improvements.
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spelling doaj.art-dd3fea9cfdb14f1f9e7506b7054d0a622022-12-22T00:26:46ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362022-01-0110546495465910.1109/ACCESS.2022.31741949772484DSMA: Reference-Based Image Super-Resolution Method Based on Dual-View Supervised Learning and Multi-Attention MechanismXin Liu0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9460-7855Jing Li1Tingting Duan2Jiangtao Li3Ye Wang4College of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, ChinaCollege of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, ChinaState Grid Electronic Commerce Company Ltd., Beijing, ChinaState Grid Electronic Commerce Company Ltd., Beijing, ChinaNanjing Nari Information Communication Technology Company Ltd., Nanjing, ChinaReference image based super-resolution methods (RefSR) have made rapid and remarkable progress in the field of image super-resolution (SR) in recent years by introducing additional high-resolution (HR) images to enhance the recovery of low-resolution (LR) images. The existing RefSR methods can rely on implicit correspondence matching to transfer the HR texture from the reference image (Ref) to compensate for the information loss in the input image. However, the differences between low-resolution input images and high-resolution reference images still affects the effective utilization of Ref images, so it is an important challenge to make full use of the information in Ref images to improve the SR performance. In this paper, we propose an image super-resolution method based on dual-view supervised learning and multi-attention mechanism (DSMA). It enhances the learning of important detail features of Ref images and weakens the interference of noisy information by introducing the multi-attention mechanism, while employing dual-view supervision to motivate the network to learn more accurate feature representations. Quantitative and qualitative experiments on these benchmarks, i.e., CUFED5, Urban100 and Manga109, show that DSMA outperforms the state-of-the-art baselines with significant improvements.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9772484/Computer visionimage enhancementimage reconstructionmachine learningsuper resolution
spellingShingle Xin Liu
Jing Li
Tingting Duan
Jiangtao Li
Ye Wang
DSMA: Reference-Based Image Super-Resolution Method Based on Dual-View Supervised Learning and Multi-Attention Mechanism
IEEE Access
Computer vision
image enhancement
image reconstruction
machine learning
super resolution
title DSMA: Reference-Based Image Super-Resolution Method Based on Dual-View Supervised Learning and Multi-Attention Mechanism
title_full DSMA: Reference-Based Image Super-Resolution Method Based on Dual-View Supervised Learning and Multi-Attention Mechanism
title_fullStr DSMA: Reference-Based Image Super-Resolution Method Based on Dual-View Supervised Learning and Multi-Attention Mechanism
title_full_unstemmed DSMA: Reference-Based Image Super-Resolution Method Based on Dual-View Supervised Learning and Multi-Attention Mechanism
title_short DSMA: Reference-Based Image Super-Resolution Method Based on Dual-View Supervised Learning and Multi-Attention Mechanism
title_sort dsma reference based image super resolution method based on dual view supervised learning and multi attention mechanism
topic Computer vision
image enhancement
image reconstruction
machine learning
super resolution
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9772484/
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