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One-to-many Approach for Improving Super-Resolution

19 Jun 2021NeurIPS 2021 12arXiv:2106.10437archive 2025-07-28

Sieun Park, Eunho Lee

Recently, there has been discussions on the ill-posed nature of super-resolution that multiple possible reconstructions exist for a given low-resolution image. Using normalizing flows, SRflow[23] achieves state-of-the-art perceptual quality by learning the distribution of the output instead of a deterministic output to one estimate. In this paper, we adapt the concepts of SRFlow to improve GAN-based super-resolution by properly implementing the one-to-many property. We modify the generator to estimate a distribution as a mapping from random noise. We improve the content loss that hampers the perceptual training objectives. We also propose additional training techniques to further enhance the perceptual quality of generated images. Using our proposed methods, we were able to improve the performance of ESRGAN[1] in x4 perceptual SR and achieve the state-of-the-art LPIPS score in x16 perceptual extreme SR by applying our methods to RFB-ESRGAN[21].

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