Learning a deep convolutional network for image super-resolution

Chao Dong, Chen Change Loy, Kaiming He, Xiaoou Tang

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Abstract

We propose a deep learning method for single image super-resolution (SR). Our method directly learns an end-to-end mapping between the low/high-resolution images. The mapping is represented as a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) [15] that takes the low-resolution image as the input and outputs the high-resolution one. We further show that traditional sparse-coding-based SR methods can also be viewed as a deep convolutional network. But unlike traditional methods that handle each component separately, our method jointly optimizes all layers. Our deep CNN has a lightweight structure, yet demonstrates state-of-the-art restoration quality, and achieves fast speed for practical on-line usage.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputer Vision, ECCV 2014 - 13th European Conference, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages184-199
Number of pages16
EditionPART 4
ISBN (Print)9783319105925
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2014
Externally publishedYes
Event13th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2014 - Zurich, Switzerland
Duration: Sept 6 2014Sept 12 2014

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
NumberPART 4
Volume8692 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference13th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2014
Country/TerritorySwitzerland
CityZurich
Period9/6/149/12/14

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

Keywords

  • deep convolutional neural networks
  • Super-resolution

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