Image Super-Resolution Using Lightweight Multiscale Residual Dense Network

The current super-resolution methods cannot fully exploit the global and local information of the original low-resolution image, resulting in loss of some information. In order to solve the problem, we propose a multiscale residual dense network (MRDN) for image super-resolution. This network is con...

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Main Authors: Shilin Li, Ming Zhao, Zhengyun Fang, Yafei Zhang, Hongjie Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2020-01-01
Series:International Journal of Optics
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/2852865
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Summary:The current super-resolution methods cannot fully exploit the global and local information of the original low-resolution image, resulting in loss of some information. In order to solve the problem, we propose a multiscale residual dense network (MRDN) for image super-resolution. This network is constructed based on the residual dense network. It can integrate the multiscale information of the image and avoid losing too much information in the deep level of the network, while extracting more information under different receptive fields. In addition, in order to reduce the redundancy of the network parameters of MRDN, we further develop a lightweight parameter method and deploy it at different scales. This method can not only reduce the redundancy of network parameters but also enhance the nonlinear mapping ability of the network at different scales. Thus, it can better learn and fit the feature information of the original image and recover the satisfactory super-resolution image. Extensive experiments are conducted, which demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
ISSN:1687-9384
1687-9392