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Hierarchical Back Projection Network for Image Super-Resolution

17 Jun 2019arXiv:1906.06874archive 2025-07-28

Zhi-Song Liu, Li-Wen Wang, Chu-Tak Li, Wan-Chi Siu

Deep learning based single image super-resolution methods use a large number of training datasets and have recently achieved great quality progress both quantitatively and qualitatively. Most deep networks focus on nonlinear mapping from low-resolution inputs to high-resolution outputs via residual learning without exploring the feature abstraction and analysis. We propose a Hierarchical Back Projection Network (HBPN), that cascades multiple HourGlass (HG) modules to bottom-up and top-down process features across all scales to capture various spatial correlations and then consolidates the best representation for reconstruction. We adopt the back projection blocks in our proposed network to provide the error correlated up and down-sampling process to replace simple deconvolution and pooling process for better estimation. A new Softmax based Weighted Reconstruction (WR) process is used to combine the outputs of HG modules to further improve super-resolution. Experimental results on various datasets (including the validation dataset, NTIRE2019, of the Real Image Super-resolution Challenge) show that our proposed approach can achieve and improve the performance of the state-of-the-art methods for different scaling factors.

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Tasks

Image Super-ResolutionSuper-Resolution

Results from the paper archive 2025-07-28

TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Image Super-Resolution BSD100 - 2x upscaling HBPN PSNR 32.33 #19 of 30 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution BSD100 - 2x upscaling HBPN SSIM 0.902 #19 of 30 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution BSD100 - 4x upscaling HBPN PSNR 27.77 #22 of 71 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution BSD100 - 4x upscaling HBPN SSIM 0.743 #22 of 71 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution BSD100 - 8x upscaling HBPN PSNR 24.93 #4 of 6 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution BSD100 - 8x upscaling HBPN SSIM 0.602 #4 of 6 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution Manga109 - 2x upscaling HBPN PSNR 39.3 #14 of 21 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution Manga109 - 2x upscaling HBPN SSIM 0.979 #14 of 21 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution Manga109 - 4x upscaling HBPN PSNR 31.57 #26 of 50 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution Manga109 - 4x upscaling HBPN SSIM 0.92 #26 of 50 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution Manga109 - 8x upscaling HBPN PSNR 25.24 #5 of 5 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution Manga109 - 8x upscaling HBPN SSIM 0.802 #5 of 5 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution Set14 - 2x upscaling HBPN PSNR 33.78 #20 of 35 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution Set14 - 2x upscaling HBPN SSIM 0.921 #20 of 35 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution Set14 - 4x upscaling HBPN PSNR 28.67 #54 of 104 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution Set14 - 4x upscaling HBPN SSIM 0.785 #54 of 104 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution Set14 - 8x upscaling HBPN PSNR 24.96 #5 of 7 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution Set14 - 8x upscaling HBPN SSIM 0.642 #5 of 7 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution Set5 - 2x upscaling HBPN PSNR 38.13 #23 of 41 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution Set5 - 2x upscaling HBPN SSIM 0.961 #23 of 41 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution Set5 - 8x upscaling HBPN PSNR 27.17 #6 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution Set5 - 8x upscaling HBPN SSIM 0.785 #6 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution Urban100 - 2x upscaling HBPN PSNR 33.12 #15 of 29 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution Urban100 - 2x upscaling HBPN SSIM 0.938 #15 of 29 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution Urban100 - 4x upscaling HBPN PSNR 27.3 #16 of 65 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution Urban100 - 4x upscaling HBPN SSIM 0.818 #16 of 65 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution Urban100 - 8x upscaling HBPN PSNR 23.04 #4 of 5 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution Urban100 - 8x upscaling HBPN SSIM 0.647 #4 of 5 Archive leaderboard report

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Methods

Softmax

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