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Kernel-aware Burst Blind Super-Resolution

14 Dec 2021arXiv:2112.07315archive 2025-07-28

Wenyi Lian, Shanglian Peng

Burst super-resolution (SR) technique provides a possibility of restoring rich details from low-quality images. However, since real world low-resolution (LR) images in practical applications have multiple complicated and unknown degradations, existing non-blind (e.g., bicubic) designed networks usually suffer severe performance drop in recovering high-resolution (HR) images. In this paper, we address the problem of reconstructing HR images from raw burst sequences acquired from a modern handheld device. The central idea is a kernel-guided strategy which can solve the burst SR problem with two steps: kernel estimation and HR image restoration. The former estimates burst kernels from raw inputs, while the latter predicts the super-resolved image based on the estimated kernels. Furthermore, we introduce a pyramid kernel-aware deformable alignment module which can effectively align the raw images with consideration of the blurry priors. Extensive experiments on synthetic and real-world datasets demonstrate that the proposed method can perform favorable state-of-the-art performance in the burst SR problem. Our codes are available at \url{https://github.com/shermanlian/KBNet}.

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Blind Super-ResolutionBurst Image Super-ResolutionImage RestorationSuper-Resolution

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Burst Image Super-Resolution BurstSR KBNet LPIPS 0.0248 #7 of 9 Archive leaderboard report
Burst Image Super-Resolution BurstSR KBNet PSNR 48.27 #7 of 9 Archive leaderboard report
Burst Image Super-Resolution BurstSR KBNet SSIM 0.9856 #7 of 9 Archive leaderboard report

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