Zhang, K. and Gao, X. and Tao, D. and Li, Xuelong (2012) Single image super-resolution with non-local means and steering kernel regression. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing 21 (11), pp. 4544-4556. ISSN 1057-7149.
Abstract
Image super-resolution (SR) reconstruction is essentially an ill-posed problem, so it is important to design an effective prior. For this purpose, we propose a novel image SR method by learning both non-local and local regularization priors from a given low-resolution image. The non-local prior takes advantage of the redundancy of similar patches in natural images, while the local prior assumes that a target pixel can be estimated by a weighted average of its neighbors. Based on the above considerations, we utilize the non-local means filter to learn a non-local prior and the steering kernel regression to learn a local prior. By assembling the two complementary regularization terms, we propose a maximum a posteriori probability framework for SR recovery. Thorough experimental results suggest that the proposed SR method can reconstruct higher quality results both quantitatively and perceptually.
Metadata
Item Type: | Article |
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School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences |
Depositing User: | Sarah Hall |
Date Deposited: | 06 Jun 2013 16:33 |
Last Modified: | 09 Aug 2023 12:33 |
URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/7344 |
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