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Bidirectional Recurrent Convolutional Networks for Multi-Frame Super-Resolution

1 Dec 2015NeurIPS 2015 12archive 2025-07-28

Yan Huang, Wei Wang, Liang Wang

Super resolving a low-resolution video is usually handled by either single-image super-resolution (SR) or multi-frame SR. Single-Image SR deals with each video frame independently, and ignores intrinsic temporal dependency of video frames which actually plays a very important role in video super-resolution. Multi-Frame SR generally extracts motion information, e.g. optical flow, to model the temporal dependency, which often shows high computational cost. Considering that recurrent neural network (RNN) can model long-term contextual information of temporal sequences well, we propose a bidirectional recurrent convolutional network for efficient multi-frame SR.Different from vanilla RNN, 1) the commonly-used recurrent full connections are replaced with weight-sharing convolutional connections and 2) conditional convolutional connections from previous input layers to current hidden layer are added for enhancing visual-temporal dependency modelling. With the powerful temporal dependency modelling, our model can super resolve videos with complex motions and achieve state-of-the-art performance. Due to the cheap convolution operations, our model has a low computational complexity and runs orders of magnitude faster than other multi-frame methods.

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Tasks

Image Super-ResolutionMulti-Frame Super-ResolutionOptical Flow EstimationSuper-ResolutionTemporal SequencesVideo Super-Resolution

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Video Super-Resolution Vid4 - 4x upscaling BRCN PSNR 24.43 #23 of 27 Archive leaderboard report
Video Super-Resolution Vid4 - 4x upscaling BRCN SSIM 0.662 #23 of 27 Archive leaderboard report

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Convolution

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