基于参考的超分辨率（REFSR）在使用外部参考（REF）图像产生现实纹理方面取得了重大进展。然而，现有的REFSR方法可以获得与输入大小一起消耗二次计算资源的高质量对应匹配，限制其应用程序。此外，这些方法通常遭受低分辨率（LR）图像和REF图像之间的比例错位。在本文中，我们提出了一种加速的多尺度聚合网络（AMSA），用于基于参考的超分辨率，包括粗略嵌入式斑块（CFE-PACKPMATCH）和多尺度动态聚合（MSDA）模块。为了提高匹配效率，我们设计一种具有随机样本传播的新型嵌入式PACKMTH方案，其涉及具有渐近线性计算成本的端到端训练到输入大小。为了进一步降低计算成本和加速会聚，我们在构成CFE-PACKMATCH的嵌入式PACKMACTH上应用了粗略策略。为了完全利用跨多个尺度的参考信息并增强稳定性的稳定性，我们开发由动态聚合和多尺度聚合组成的MSDA模块。动态聚合通过动态聚合特征来纠正轻微比例的错位，并且多尺度聚合通过融合多尺度信息来为大规模错位带来鲁棒性。实验结果表明，该拟议的AMSA对定量和定性评估的最先进方法实现了卓越的性能。

基于参考的图像超分辨率（REFSR）旨在利用辅助参考（REF）图像为超溶解的低分辨率（LR）图像。最近，RefSR引起了极大的关注，因为它提供了超越单图SR的替代方法。但是，解决REFSR问题有两个关键的挑战：（i）当它们显着不同时，很难匹配LR和Ref图像之间的对应关系； （ii）如何将相关纹理从参考图像转移以补偿LR图像的细节非常具有挑战性。为了解决RefSR的这些问题，本文提出了一个可变形的注意变压器，即DATSR，具有多个尺度，每个尺度由纹理特征编码器（TFE）模块组成，基于参考的可变形注意（RDA）模块和残差功能聚合（RFA）模块。具体而言，TFE首先提取图像转换（例如，亮度）不敏感的LR和REF图像，RDA可以利用多个相关纹理来补偿更多的LR功能信息，而RFA最终汇总了LR功能和相关纹理，以获得更愉快的宜人的质地结果。广泛的实验表明，我们的DATSR在定量和质量上实现了基准数据集上的最新性能。

We study on image super-resolution (SR), which aims to recover realistic textures from a low-resolution (LR) image. Recent progress has been made by taking high-resolution images as references (Ref), so that relevant textures can be transferred to LR images. However, existing SR approaches neglect to use attention mechanisms to transfer high-resolution (HR) textures from Ref images, which limits these approaches in challenging cases. In this paper, we propose a novel Texture Transformer Network for Image Super-Resolution (TTSR), in which the LR and Ref images are formulated as queries and keys in a transformer, respectively. TTSR consists of four closely-related modules optimized for image generation tasks, including a learnable texture extractor by DNN, a relevance embedding module, a hard-attention module for texture transfer, and a softattention module for texture synthesis. Such a design encourages joint feature learning across LR and Ref images, in which deep feature correspondences can be discovered by attention, and thus accurate texture features can be transferred. The proposed texture transformer can be further stacked in a cross-scale way, which enables texture recovery from different levels (e.g., from 1× to 4× magnification). Extensive experiments show that TTSR achieves significant improvements over state-of-the-art approaches on both quantitative and qualitative evaluations. The source code can be downloaded at https://github.com/ researchmm/TTSR.

Reference-based Super-Resolution (Ref-SR) has recently emerged as a promising paradigm to enhance a low-resolution (LR) input image or video by introducing an additional high-resolution (HR) reference image. Existing Ref-SR methods mostly rely on implicit correspondence matching to borrow HR textures from reference images to compensate for the information loss in input images. However, performing local transfer is difficult because of two gaps between input and reference images: the transformation gap (e.g., scale and rotation) and the resolution gap (e.g., HR and LR). To tackle these challenges, we propose C2-Matching in this work, which performs explicit robust matching crossing transformation and resolution. 1) To bridge the transformation gap, we propose a contrastive correspondence network, which learns transformation-robust correspondences using augmented views of the input image. 2) To address the resolution gap, we adopt teacher-student correlation distillation, which distills knowledge from the easier HR-HR matching to guide the more ambiguous LR-HR matching. 3) Finally, we design a dynamic aggregation module to address the potential misalignment issue between input images and reference images. In addition, to faithfully evaluate the performance of Reference-based Image Super-Resolution under a realistic setting, we contribute the Webly-Referenced SR (WR-SR) dataset, mimicking the practical usage scenario. We also extend C2-Matching to Reference-based Video Super-Resolution task, where an image taken in a similar scene serves as the HR reference image. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our proposed C2-Matching significantly outperforms state of the arts on the standard CUFED5 benchmark and also boosts the performance of video SR by incorporating the C2-Matching component into Video SR pipelines.

Reference-based image super-resolution (RefSR) is a promising SR branch and has shown great potential in overcoming the limitations of single image super-resolution. While previous state-of-the-art RefSR methods mainly focus on improving the efficacy and robustness of reference feature transfer, it is generally overlooked that a well reconstructed SR image should enable better SR reconstruction for its similar LR images when it is referred to as. Therefore, in this work, we propose a reciprocal learning framework that can appropriately leverage such a fact to reinforce the learning of a RefSR network. Besides, we deliberately design a progressive feature alignment and selection module for further improving the RefSR task. The newly proposed module aligns reference-input images at multi-scale feature spaces and performs reference-aware feature selection in a progressive manner, thus more precise reference features can be transferred into the input features and the network capability is enhanced. Our reciprocal learning paradigm is model-agnostic and it can be applied to arbitrary RefSR models. We empirically show that multiple recent state-of-the-art RefSR models can be consistently improved with our reciprocal learning paradigm. Furthermore, our proposed model together with the reciprocal learning strategy sets new state-of-the-art performances on multiple benchmarks.

最新的多视图多媒体应用程序在高分辨率（HR）视觉体验与存储或带宽约束之间挣扎。因此，本文提出了一个多视图图像超分辨率（MVISR）任务。它旨在增加从同一场景捕获的多视图图像的分辨率。一种解决方案是将图像或视频超分辨率（SR）方法应用于低分辨率（LR）输入视图结果。但是，这些方法无法处理视图之间的大角度转换，并利用所有多视图图像中的信息。为了解决这些问题，我们提出了MVSRNET，该MVSRNET使用几何信息从所有LR多视图中提取尖锐的细节，以支持LR输入视图的SR。具体而言，MVSRNET中提出的几何感知参考合成模块使用几何信息和所有多视图LR图像来合成像素对齐的HR参考图像。然后，提出的动态高频搜索网络完全利用了SR参考图像中的高频纹理细节。关于几个基准测试的广泛实验表明，我们的方法在最新方法上有了显着改善。

Blind image super-resolution (Blind-SR) aims to recover a high-resolution (HR) image from its corresponding low-resolution (LR) input image with unknown degradations. Most of the existing works design an explicit degradation estimator for each degradation to guide SR. However, it is infeasible to provide concrete labels of multiple degradation combinations (\eg, blur, noise, jpeg compression) to supervise the degradation estimator training. In addition, these special designs for certain degradation, such as blur, impedes the models from being generalized to handle different degradations. To this end, it is necessary to design an implicit degradation estimator that can extract discriminative degradation representation for all degradations without relying on the supervision of degradation ground-truth. In this paper, we propose a Knowledge Distillation based Blind-SR network (KDSR). It consists of a knowledge distillation based implicit degradation estimator network (KD-IDE) and an efficient SR network. To learn the KDSR model, we first train a teacher network: KD-IDE$_{T}$. It takes paired HR and LR patches as inputs and is optimized with the SR network jointly. Then, we further train a student network KD-IDE$_{S}$, which only takes LR images as input and learns to extract the same implicit degradation representation (IDR) as KD-IDE$_{T}$. In addition, to fully use extracted IDR, we design a simple, strong, and efficient IDR based dynamic convolution residual block (IDR-DCRB) to build an SR network. We conduct extensive experiments under classic and real-world degradation settings. The results show that KDSR achieves SOTA performance and can generalize to various degradation processes. The source codes and pre-trained models will be released.

非本地注意力（NLA）通过利用自然图像中的内在特征相关性来带来单幅图像超分辨率（SISR）的显着改进。然而，NLA提供嘈杂的信息大量的权重，并且相对于输入大小消耗二次计算资源，限制其性能和应用。在本文中，我们提出了一种新的高效非局部对比度注意（Enca），以执行远程视觉建模并利用更相关的非局部特征。具体而言，Enca由两部分组成，有效的非本地注意力（Enla）和稀疏聚合。 ENLA采用内核方法来近似指数函数并获得线性计算复杂度。对于稀疏聚合，我们通过放大因子乘以专注于信息特征的输入，但近似的方差呈指数增加。因此，应用对比学习以进一步分离相关和无关的特征。为了展示Enca的有效性，我们通过在简单的骨干中添加一些模块来构建称为有效的非本地对比网络（ENLCN）的架构。广泛的实验结果表明，Enlcn对定量和定性评估的最先进方法达到了卓越的性能。

Because of the necessity to obtain high-quality images with minimal radiation doses, such as in low-field magnetic resonance imaging, super-resolution reconstruction in medical imaging has become more popular (MRI). However, due to the complexity and high aesthetic requirements of medical imaging, image super-resolution reconstruction remains a difficult challenge. In this paper, we offer a deep learning-based strategy for reconstructing medical images from low resolutions utilizing Transformer and Generative Adversarial Networks (T-GAN). The integrated system can extract more precise texture information and focus more on important locations through global image matching after successfully inserting Transformer into the generative adversarial network for picture reconstruction. Furthermore, we weighted the combination of content loss, adversarial loss, and adversarial feature loss as the final multi-task loss function during the training of our proposed model T-GAN. In comparison to established measures like PSNR and SSIM, our suggested T-GAN achieves optimal performance and recovers more texture features in super-resolution reconstruction of MRI scanned images of the knees and belly.

现实世界图像超分辨率（SR）的关键挑战是在低分辨率（LR）图像中恢复具有复杂未知降解（例如，下采样，噪声和压缩）的缺失细节。大多数以前的作品还原图像空间中的此类缺失细节。为了应对自然图像的高度多样性，他们要么依靠难以训练和容易训练和伪影的不稳定的甘体，要么诉诸于通常不可用的高分辨率（HR）图像中的明确参考。在这项工作中，我们提出了匹配SR（FEMASR）的功能，该功能在更紧凑的特征空间中恢复了现实的HR图像。与图像空间方法不同，我们的FEMASR通过将扭曲的LR图像{\ IT特征}与我们预读的HR先验中的无失真性HR对应物匹配来恢复HR图像，并解码匹配的功能以获得现实的HR图像。具体而言，我们的人力资源先验包含一个离散的特征代码簿及其相关的解码器，它们在使用量化的生成对抗网络（VQGAN）的HR图像上预估计。值得注意的是，我们在VQGAN中结合了一种新型的语义正则化，以提高重建图像的质量。对于功能匹配，我们首先提取由LR编码器组成的LR编码器的LR功能，然后遵循简单的最近邻居策略，将其与预读的代码簿匹配。特别是，我们为LR编码器配备了与解码器的残留快捷方式连接，这对于优化功能匹配损耗至关重要，还有助于补充可能的功能匹配错误。实验结果表明，我们的方法比以前的方法产生更现实的HR图像。代码以\ url {https://github.com/chaofengc/femasr}发布。

在本文中，我们考虑了基于参考的超分辨率（REFSR）中的两个具有挑战性的问题，（i）如何选择适当的参考图像，以及（ii）如何以一种自我监督的方式学习真实世界RefSR。特别是，我们从双摄像头Zooms（SelfDZSR）观察到现实世界图像SR的新颖的自我监督学习方法。考虑到多台相机在现代智能手机中的普及，可以自然利用越来越多的缩放（远摄）图像作为指导较小的变焦（短对焦）图像的SR。此外，SelfDZSR学习了一个深层网络，以获得短对焦图像的SR结果，以具有与远摄图像相同的分辨率。为此，我们将远摄图像而不是其他高分辨率图像作为监督信息，然后从中选择中心贴片作为对相应的短对焦图像补丁的引用。为了减轻短对焦低分辨率（LR）图像和远摄地面真相（GT）图像之间未对准的影响，我们设计了辅助LR发电机，并将GT映射到辅助LR，同时保持空间位置不变。 。然后，可以利用辅助-LR通过建议的自适应空间变压器网络（ADASTN）将LR特征变形，并将REF特征与GT匹配。在测试过程中，可以直接部署SelfDZSR，以使用远摄映像的引用来超级解决整个短对焦图像。实验表明，我们的方法可以针对最先进的方法实现更好的定量和定性性能。代码可在https://github.com/cszhilu1998/selfdzsr上找到。

Image super-resolution (SR) serves as a fundamental tool for the processing and transmission of multimedia data. Recently, Transformer-based models have achieved competitive performances in image SR. They divide images into fixed-size patches and apply self-attention on these patches to model long-range dependencies among pixels. However, this architecture design is originated for high-level vision tasks, which lacks design guideline from SR knowledge. In this paper, we aim to design a new attention block whose insights are from the interpretation of Local Attribution Map (LAM) for SR networks. Specifically, LAM presents a hierarchical importance map where the most important pixels are located in a fine area of a patch and some less important pixels are spread in a coarse area of the whole image. To access pixels in the coarse area, instead of using a very large patch size, we propose a lightweight Global Pixel Access (GPA) module that applies cross-attention with the most similar patch in an image. In the fine area, we use an Intra-Patch Self-Attention (IPSA) module to model long-range pixel dependencies in a local patch, and then a $3\times3$ convolution is applied to process the finest details. In addition, a Cascaded Patch Division (CPD) strategy is proposed to enhance perceptual quality of recovered images. Extensive experiments suggest that our method outperforms state-of-the-art lightweight SR methods by a large margin. Code is available at https://github.com/passerer/HPINet.

联合超分辨率和反音调映射（联合SR-ITM）旨在增加低分辨率和标准动态范围图像的分辨率和动态范围。重点方法主要是诉诸图像分解技术，使用多支化的网络体系结构。 ，这些方法采用的刚性分解在很大程度上将其力量限制在各种图像上。为了利用其潜在能力，在本文中，我们将分解机制从图像域概括为更广泛的特征域。为此，我们提出了一个轻巧的特征分解聚合网络（FDAN）。特别是，我们设计了一个功能分解块（FDB），可以实现功能细节和对比度的可学习分离。通过级联FDB，我们可以建立一个用于强大的多级特征分解的分层功能分解组。联合SR-ITM，\ ie，SRITM-4K的新基准数据集，该数据集是大规模的，为足够的模型培训和评估提供了多功能方案。两个基准数据集的实验结果表明，我们的FDAN表明我们的FDAN有效，并且胜过了以前的方法sr-itm.ar代码和数据集将公开发布。

This paper explores the problem of reconstructing high-resolution light field (LF) images from hybrid lenses, including a high-resolution camera surrounded by multiple low-resolution cameras. The performance of existing methods is still limited, as they produce either blurry results on plain textured areas or distortions around depth discontinuous boundaries. To tackle this challenge, we propose a novel end-to-end learning-based approach, which can comprehensively utilize the specific characteristics of the input from two complementary and parallel perspectives. Specifically, one module regresses a spatially consistent intermediate estimation by learning a deep multidimensional and cross-domain feature representation, while the other module warps another intermediate estimation, which maintains the high-frequency textures, by propagating the information of the high-resolution view. We finally leverage the advantages of the two intermediate estimations adaptively via the learned attention maps, leading to the final high-resolution LF image with satisfactory results on both plain textured areas and depth discontinuous boundaries. Besides, to promote the effectiveness of our method trained with simulated hybrid data on real hybrid data captured by a hybrid LF imaging system, we carefully design the network architecture and the training strategy. Extensive experiments on both real and simulated hybrid data demonstrate the significant superiority of our approach over state-of-the-art ones. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first end-to-end deep learning method for LF reconstruction from a real hybrid input. We believe our framework could potentially decrease the cost of high-resolution LF data acquisition and benefit LF data storage and transmission.

Despite the breakthroughs in accuracy and speed of single image super-resolution using faster and deeper convolutional neural networks, one central problem remains largely unsolved: how do we recover the finer texture details when we super-resolve at large upscaling factors? The behavior of optimization-based super-resolution methods is principally driven by the choice of the objective function. Recent work has largely focused on minimizing the mean squared reconstruction error. The resulting estimates have high peak signal-to-noise ratios, but they are often lacking high-frequency details and are perceptually unsatisfying in the sense that they fail to match the fidelity expected at the higher resolution. In this paper, we present SRGAN, a generative adversarial network (GAN) for image superresolution (SR). To our knowledge, it is the first framework capable of inferring photo-realistic natural images for 4× upscaling factors. To achieve this, we propose a perceptual loss function which consists of an adversarial loss and a content loss. The adversarial loss pushes our solution to the natural image manifold using a discriminator network that is trained to differentiate between the super-resolved images and original photo-realistic images. In addition, we use a content loss motivated by perceptual similarity instead of similarity in pixel space. Our deep residual network is able to recover photo-realistic textures from heavily downsampled images on public benchmarks. An extensive mean-opinion-score (MOS) test shows hugely significant gains in perceptual quality using SRGAN. The MOS scores obtained with SRGAN are closer to those of the original high-resolution images than to those obtained with any state-of-the-art method.

我们考虑单个图像超分辨率（SISR）问题，其中基于低分辨率（LR）输入产生高分辨率（HR）图像。最近，生成的对抗性网络（GANS）变得幻觉细节。大多数沿着这条线的方法依赖于预定义的单个LR-intle-hr映射，这对于SISR任务来说是足够灵活的。此外，GaN生成的假细节可能经常破坏整个图像的现实主义。我们通过为Rich-Detail SISR提出最好的伙伴GANS（Beby-GaN）来解决这些问题。放松不变的一对一的约束，我们允许估计的贴片在培训期间动态寻求最佳监督，这有利于产生更合理的细节。此外，我们提出了一种区域感知的对抗性学习策略，指导我们的模型专注于自适应地为纹理区域发电细节。广泛的实验证明了我们方法的有效性。还构建了超高分辨率4K数据集以促进未来的超分辨率研究。

单图超分辨率（SISR）的最新方法在从低分辨率（LR）图像产生高分辨率（HR）图像方面表现出了出色的性能。但是，这些方法中的大多数使用合成生成的LR图像显示出它们的优势，并且它们对现实世界图像的推广性通常并不令人满意。在本文中，我们注意针对可靠的超级分辨率（SR）开发的两种著名策略，即基于参考的SR（REFSR）和零摄影SR（ZSSR），并提出了一种综合解决方案，称为参考 - 基于零击SR（RZSR）。遵循ZSSR的原理，我们使用仅从输入图像本身提取的训练样本在测试时间训练特定于图像的SR网络。为了推进ZSSR，我们获得具有丰富纹理和高频细节的参考图像贴片，这些贴片也仅使用跨尺度匹配从输入图像中提取。为此，我们使用深度信息构建了一个内部参考数据集并从数据集中检索参考图像补丁。使用LR贴片及其相应的HR参考贴片，我们训练由非本地注意模块体现的REFSR网络。实验结果证明了与以前的ZSSR方法相比，与其他完全监督的SISR方法相比，所提出的RZSR的优越性与前所未有的图像相比。

Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)-based image super-resolution (SR) has exhibited impressive success on known degraded low-resolution (LR) images. However, this type of approach is hard to hold its performance in practical scenarios when the degradation process is unknown. Despite existing blind SR methods proposed to solve this problem using blur kernel estimation, the perceptual quality and reconstruction accuracy are still unsatisfactory. In this paper, we analyze the degradation of a high-resolution (HR) image from image intrinsic components according to a degradation-based formulation model. We propose a components decomposition and co-optimization network (CDCN) for blind SR. Firstly, CDCN decomposes the input LR image into structure and detail components in feature space. Then, the mutual collaboration block (MCB) is presented to exploit the relationship between both two components. In this way, the detail component can provide informative features to enrich the structural context and the structure component can carry structural context for better detail revealing via a mutual complementary manner. After that, we present a degradation-driven learning strategy to jointly supervise the HR image detail and structure restoration process. Finally, a multi-scale fusion module followed by an upsampling layer is designed to fuse the structure and detail features and perform SR reconstruction. Empowered by such degradation-based components decomposition, collaboration, and mutual optimization, we can bridge the correlation between component learning and degradation modelling for blind SR, thereby producing SR results with more accurate textures. Extensive experiments on both synthetic SR datasets and real-world images show that the proposed method achieves the state-of-the-art performance compared to existing methods.

Informative features play a crucial role in the single image super-resolution task. Channel attention has been demonstrated to be effective for preserving information-rich features in each layer. However, channel attention treats each convolution layer as a separate process that misses the correlation among different layers. To address this problem, we propose a new holistic attention network (HAN), which consists of a layer attention module (LAM) and a channel-spatial attention module (CSAM), to model the holistic interdependencies among layers, channels, and positions. Specifically, the proposed LAM adaptively emphasizes hierarchical features by considering correlations among layers. Meanwhile, CSAM learns the confidence at all the positions of each channel to selectively capture more informative features. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed HAN performs favorably against the state-ofthe-art single image super-resolution approaches.

Real-world image super-resolution (RISR) has received increased focus for improving the quality of SR images under unknown complex degradation. Existing methods rely on the heavy SR models to enhance low-resolution (LR) images of different degradation levels, which significantly restricts their practical deployments on resource-limited devices. In this paper, we propose a novel Dynamic Channel Splitting scheme for efficient Real-world Image Super-Resolution, termed DCS-RISR. Specifically, we first introduce the light degradation prediction network to regress the degradation vector to simulate the real-world degradations, upon which the channel splitting vector is generated as the input for an efficient SR model. Then, a learnable octave convolution block is proposed to adaptively decide the channel splitting scale for low- and high-frequency features at each block, reducing computation overhead and memory cost by offering the large scale to low-frequency features and the small scale to the high ones. To further improve the RISR performance, Non-local regularization is employed to supplement the knowledge of patches from LR and HR subspace with free-computation inference. Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of DCS-RISR on different benchmark datasets. Our DCS-RISR not only achieves the best trade-off between computation/parameter and PSNR/SSIM metric, and also effectively handles real-world images with different degradation levels.