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Learning a Single Convolutional Super-Resolution Network for Multiple Degradations

17 Dec 2017CVPR 2018 6arXiv:1712.06116archive 2025-07-28

Kai Zhang, WangMeng Zuo, Lei Zhang

Recent years have witnessed the unprecedented success of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in single image super-resolution (SISR). However, existing CNN-based SISR methods mostly assume that a low-resolution (LR) image is bicubicly downsampled from a high-resolution (HR) image, thus inevitably giving rise to poor performance when the true degradation does not follow this assumption. Moreover, they lack scalability in learning a single model to non-blindly deal with multiple degradations. To address these issues, we propose a general framework with dimensionality stretching strategy that enables a single convolutional super-resolution network to take two key factors of the SISR degradation process, i.e., blur kernel and noise level, as input. Consequently, the super-resolver can handle multiple and even spatially variant degradations, which significantly improves the practicability. Extensive experimental results on synthetic and real LR images show that the proposed convolutional super-resolution network not only can produce favorable results on multiple degradations but also is computationally efficient, providing a highly effective and scalable solution to practical SISR applications.

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Image Super-ResolutionSuper-ResolutionVideo Super-Resolution

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Image Super-Resolution BSD100 - 4x upscaling SRMDNF PSNR 27.49 #37 of 71 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution BSD100 - 4x upscaling SRMDNF SSIM 0.734 #37 of 71 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution Set14 - 4x upscaling SRMDNF PSNR 28.35 #71 of 104 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution Set14 - 4x upscaling SRMDNF SSIM 0.777 #71 of 104 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution Urban100 - 4x upscaling SRMDNF PSNR 25.68 #48 of 65 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution Urban100 - 4x upscaling SRMDNF SSIM 0.773 #48 of 65 Archive leaderboard report
Video Super-Resolution MSU Video Super Resolution Benchmark: Detail Restoration SRMD 1 - LPIPS 0.877 #27 of 32 Archive leaderboard report
Video Super-Resolution MSU Video Super Resolution Benchmark: Detail Restoration SRMD ERQAv1.0 0.594 #27 of 32 Archive leaderboard report
Video Super-Resolution MSU Video Super Resolution Benchmark: Detail Restoration SRMD FPS 5.882 #27 of 32 Archive leaderboard report
Video Super-Resolution MSU Video Super Resolution Benchmark: Detail Restoration SRMD PSNR 27.672 #27 of 32 Archive leaderboard report
Video Super-Resolution MSU Video Super Resolution Benchmark: Detail Restoration SRMD QRCRv1.0 0 #27 of 32 Archive leaderboard report
Video Super-Resolution MSU Video Super Resolution Benchmark: Detail Restoration SRMD SSIM 0.834 #27 of 32 Archive leaderboard report
Video Super-Resolution MSU Video Super Resolution Benchmark: Detail Restoration SRMD Subjective score 3.468 #27 of 32 Archive leaderboard report
Video Super-Resolution MSU Video Upscalers: Quality Enhancement SRMD LPIPS 0.349 #31 of 48 Archive leaderboard report
Video Super-Resolution MSU Video Upscalers: Quality Enhancement SRMD PSNR 30.96 #31 of 48 Archive leaderboard report
Video Super-Resolution MSU Video Upscalers: Quality Enhancement SRMD SSIM 0.852 #31 of 48 Archive leaderboard report

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