Single Image Super Resolution

Sayısal Görüntü İşleme

DR. Burhan Baraklı

Mutia Hanum
14Y5008215
 Outline
• Introduction to Super-Resolution
• Super Resolution Techniques
 Multi Image Super Resolution
 Single Image Super Resolution
 Why Super Resolution?

Definition: Create High Resolution visual output from Low

Resolution visual input.
 What is Super Resolution?
• Generating high resolution image with more
resolving power using one or more low
resolution images.
• More resolving power more details
 Terminology
• Low-Resolution (LR): Pixel density within an
image is small, therefore offering less details.
• High-Resolution (HR): Pixel density within an
image is larger, therefore offering more
details.
• Super-Resolution (SR): Obtaining a HR image
from one or multiple LR images .
 Application
• Medical imaging (CAT, MRI, etc).
• Satellite imaging
• Enlarging consumer photographs
• Video surveillance (Car wash kidnapping).
• Converting NTSC video content to high
definition television
 How to increase resolution?

• Reducing pixel size (Increase the number of pixels per unit

area)
• Increase the chip-size (high cost for high precision optics)
• Super-resolution (cost less than comparable approaches,
LR imaging systems can be utilized)
SUPER RESOLUTION TECHNIQUES
 Multi image super resolution
• Several images of the same scenery
• Each image will have different information of
the same scenery
 Single Image Super Resolution
• Image database with HR/LR image pairs
• Replace similar LR patches with corresponding
HR patches
 Single Image SR
• Traditional resolution enhancement:
 Smoothing (Gaussian, Wiener, and median filters)
 Interpolation (Nearest neighbor, bilinear, bicubic
and cubic spline ,etc)
 Sharpening by amplifying existing image details (it
is useful to do, provided noise isn’t amplified)
• Single-image SR: Estimate missing high-resolution
detail that isn’t present in the original image, and
which we can’t make visible by simple sharpening
Patch Redundancy in a Single Image
Employing in-scale Patch Redundancy
Employing Cross-scale Patch Redundancy

• Build a cascade of decreasing resolution

images from the LR image.
• For each patch in the LR image, search for its
Nearest Neighbour in the even lower
resolution image.
• Take the found neighbour’s parent in the
original LR image and copy it to be the HR
image.
Bicubic interpolation Unified single-image SR (x3) Ground truth image
Bicubic interpolation Unified single-image SR (x3)
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