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Deep Laplacian Pyramid Networks for Fast and Accurate Super-Resolution

12 Apr 2017CVPR 2017 7arXiv:1704.03915archive 2025-07-28

Wei-Sheng Lai, Jia-Bin Huang, Narendra Ahuja, Ming-Hsuan Yang

Convolutional neural networks have recently demonstrated high-quality reconstruction for single-image super-resolution. In this paper, we propose the Laplacian Pyramid Super-Resolution Network (LapSRN) to progressively reconstruct the sub-band residuals of high-resolution images. At each pyramid level, our model takes coarse-resolution feature maps as input, predicts the high-frequency residuals, and uses transposed convolutions for upsampling to the finer level. Our method does not require the bicubic interpolation as the pre-processing step and thus dramatically reduces the computational complexity. We train the proposed LapSRN with deep supervision using a robust Charbonnier loss function and achieve high-quality reconstruction. Furthermore, our network generates multi-scale predictions in one feed-forward pass through the progressive reconstruction, thereby facilitates resource-aware applications. Extensive quantitative and qualitative evaluations on benchmark datasets show that the proposed algorithm performs favorably against the state-of-the-art methods in terms of speed and accuracy.

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Image Super-Resolution BSD100 - 4x upscaling LapSRN PSNR 27.32 #46 of 71 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution BSD100 - 4x upscaling LapSRN SSIM 0.728 #46 of 71 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution Set14 - 4x upscaling LapSR PSNR 28.19 #77 of 104 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution Set14 - 4x upscaling LapSR SSIM 0.772 #77 of 104 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution Urban100 - 4x upscaling LapSRN PSNR 25.21 #55 of 65 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution Urban100 - 4x upscaling LapSRN SSIM 0.756 #55 of 65 Archive leaderboard report

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