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Learning for Video Super-Resolution through HR Optical Flow Estimation

23 Sep 2018arXiv:1809.08573archive 2025-07-28

Longguang Wang, Yulan Guo, Zaiping Lin, Xinpu Deng, Wei An

Video super-resolution (SR) aims to generate a sequence of high-resolution (HR) frames with plausible and temporally consistent details from their low-resolution (LR) counterparts. The generation of accurate correspondence plays a significant role in video SR. It is demonstrated by traditional video SR methods that simultaneous SR of both images and optical flows can provide accurate correspondences and better SR results. However, LR optical flows are used in existing deep learning based methods for correspondence generation. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end trainable video SR framework to super-resolve both images and optical flows. Specifically, we first propose an optical flow reconstruction network (OFRnet) to infer HR optical flows in a coarse-to-fine manner. Then, motion compensation is performed according to the HR optical flows. Finally, compensated LR inputs are fed to a super-resolution network (SRnet) to generate the SR results. Extensive experiments demonstrate that HR optical flows provide more accurate correspondences than their LR counterparts and improve both accuracy and consistency performance. Comparative results on the Vid4 and DAVIS-10 datasets show that our framework achieves the state-of-the-art performance.

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Motion CompensationOptical Flow EstimationSuper-ResolutionVideo Super-Resolution

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Video Super-Resolution Vid4 - 4x upscaling SOF-VSR MOVIE 4.32 #18 of 27 Archive leaderboard report
Video Super-Resolution Vid4 - 4x upscaling SOF-VSR PSNR 26.01 #18 of 27 Archive leaderboard report
Video Super-Resolution Vid4 - 4x upscaling SOF-VSR SSIM 0.771 #18 of 27 Archive leaderboard report

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