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EXTRACTER: Efficient Texture Matching with Attention and Gradient Enhancing for Large Scale Image Super Resolution

2 Oct 2023arXiv:2310.01379archive 2025-07-28

Esteban Reyes-Saldana, Mariano Rivera

Recent Reference-Based image super-resolution (RefSR) has improved SOTA deep methods introducing attention mechanisms to enhance low-resolution images by transferring high-resolution textures from a reference high-resolution image. The main idea is to search for matches between patches using LR and Reference image pair in a feature space and merge them using deep architectures. However, existing methods lack the accurate search of textures. They divide images into as many patches as possible, resulting in inefficient memory usage, and cannot manage large images. Herein, we propose a deep search with a more efficient memory usage that reduces significantly the number of image patches and finds the k most relevant texture match for each low-resolution patch over the high-resolution reference patches, resulting in an accurate texture match. We enhance the Super Resolution result adding gradient density information using a simple residual architecture showing competitive metrics results: PSNR and SSMI.

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Image Super-Resolution CUFED5 - 4x upscaling Extracter-rec PSNR 27.29 #1 of 2 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution CUFED5 - 4x upscaling Extracter-rec SSIM 0.811 #1 of 2 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution Set14 - 4x upscaling Extracter-rec PSNR 28.09 #78 of 104 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution Set14 - 4x upscaling Extracter-rec SSIM 0.782 #78 of 104 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution Sun80 - 4x upscaling Extracter-rec PSNR 30.02 #1 of 2 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution Sun80 - 4x upscaling Extracter-rec SSIM 0.816 #1 of 2 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution Urban100 - 4x upscaling Extracter-rec PSNR 26.04 #44 of 65 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution Urban100 - 4x upscaling Extracter-rec SSIM 0.785 #44 of 65 Archive leaderboard report

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