Deep Learning-based Image Super-Resolution Considering Quantitative and Perceptual Quality
Jun-Ho Choi, Jun-Hyuk Kim, Manri Cheon, Jong-Seok Lee
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Abstract
Recently, it has been shown that in super-resolution, there exists a tradeoff relationship between the quantitative and perceptual quality of super-resolved images, which correspond to the similarity to the ground-truth images and the naturalness, respectively. In this paper, we propose a novel super-resolution method that can improve the perceptual quality of the upscaled images while preserving the conventional quantitative performance. The proposed method employs a deep network for multi-pass upscaling in company with a discriminator network and two quantitative score predictor networks. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method achieves a good balance of the quantitative and perceptual quality, showing more satisfactory results than existing methods.
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| Dataset | Model | Metric | Claimed | Verified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BSD100 - 4x upscaling | 4PP-EUSR | PSNR | 26.57 | — | Unverified |
| Set14 - 4x upscaling | 4PP-EUSR | PSNR | 27.62 | — | Unverified |