Single-Image Super-Resolution Using Panchromatic Gradient Prior and Variational Model

Yingying Xu, Jianhua Li, Haifeng Song and Lei Du

Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2021, vol. 2021, 1-11

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Single-image super-resolution (SISR) is a resolution enhancement technique and is known as an ill-posed problem. Motivated by the idea of pan-sharping, we propose a novel variational model for SISR. The structure tensor of the input low-resolution image is exploited to obtain the gradient of an imaginary panchromatic image. Then, by constraining the gradient consistency, the image edges and details can be better recovered during the procedure of restoration of high-resolution images. Besides, we resort to the nonlocal sparse and low-rank regularization of image patches to further improve the super-resolution performance. The proposed variational model is efficiently solved by ADMM-based algorithm. We do extensive experiments in natural images and remote sensing images with different magnifying factors and compare our method with three classical super-resolution methods. The subjective visual impression and quantitative evaluation indexes both show that our method can obtain higher-quality results.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1155/2021/9944385

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