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Edge-Informed Single Image Super-Resolution

11 Sep 2019arXiv:1909.05305archive 2025-07-28

Kamyar Nazeri, Harrish Thasarathan, Mehran Ebrahimi

The recent increase in the extensive use of digital imaging technologies has brought with it a simultaneous demand for higher-resolution images. We develop a novel edge-informed approach to single image super-resolution (SISR). The SISR problem is reformulated as an image inpainting task. We use a two-stage inpainting model as a baseline for super-resolution and show its effectiveness for different scale factors (x2, x4, x8) compared to basic interpolation schemes. This model is trained using a joint optimization of image contents (texture and color) and structures (edges). Quantitative and qualitative comparisons are included and the proposed model is compared with current state-of-the-art techniques. We show that our method of decoupling structure and texture reconstruction improves the quality of the final reconstructed high-resolution image. Code and models available at: https://github.com/knazeri/edge-informed-sisr

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Image InpaintingImage Super-ResolutionSuper-Resolution

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Image Super-Resolution BSD100 - 4x upscaling Edge-informed SR PSNR 24.25 #68 of 71 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution BSD100 - 4x upscaling Edge-informed SR SSIM 0.851 #68 of 71 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution Celeb-HQ 4x upscaling Edge-informed SR PSNR 28.23 #1 of 1 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution Celeb-HQ 4x upscaling Edge-informed SR SSIM 0.912 #1 of 1 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution Set14 - 4x upscaling Edge-informed SR PSNR 25.19 #101 of 104 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution Set14 - 4x upscaling Edge-informed SR SSIM 0.894 #101 of 104 Archive leaderboard report

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