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Deep Back-Projection Networks For Super-Resolution

7 Mar 2018CVPR 2018 6arXiv:1803.02735archive 2025-07-28

Muhammad Haris, Greg Shakhnarovich, Norimichi Ukita

The feed-forward architectures of recently proposed deep super-resolution networks learn representations of low-resolution inputs, and the non-linear mapping from those to high-resolution output. However, this approach does not fully address the mutual dependencies of low- and high-resolution images. We propose Deep Back-Projection Networks (DBPN), that exploit iterative up- and down-sampling layers, providing an error feedback mechanism for projection errors at each stage. We construct mutually-connected up- and down-sampling stages each of which represents different types of image degradation and high-resolution components. We show that extending this idea to allow concatenation of features across up- and down-sampling stages (Dense DBPN) allows us to reconstruct further improve super-resolution, yielding superior results and in particular establishing new state of the art results for large scaling factors such as 8x across multiple data sets.

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Image Super-ResolutionSuper-ResolutionVideo Super-Resolution

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Image Super-Resolution BSD100 - 4x upscaling D-DBPN PSNR 27.72 #27 of 71 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution BSD100 - 4x upscaling D-DBPN SSIM 0.740 #27 of 71 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution Manga109 - 4x upscaling D-DBPN SSIM 0.914 #37 of 50 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution Set14 - 4x upscaling D-DBPN PSNR 28.82 #46 of 104 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution Set14 - 4x upscaling D-DBPN SSIM 0.786 #46 of 104 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution Urban100 - 4x upscaling D-DBPN SSIM 0.795 #64 of 65 Archive leaderboard report
Video Super-Resolution Vid4 - 4x upscaling DBPN PSNR 25.37 #21 of 27 Archive leaderboard report
Video Super-Resolution Vid4 - 4x upscaling DBPN SSIM 0.737 #21 of 27 Archive leaderboard report

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