Single-image super-resolution based on Markov random field and contourlet transform

Wei Wu; Zheng Liu; Wail Gueaieb; Xiaohai He

doi:10.1117/1.3580750

1 April 2011 Single-image super-resolution based on Markov random field and contourlet transform

Wei Wu, Zheng Liu, Wail Gueaieb, Xiaohai He

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Journal of Electronic Imaging, Vol. 20, Issue 2, 023005 (April 2011). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3580750

Abstract

Learning-based methods are well adopted in image super-resolution. In this paper, we propose a new learning-based approach using contourlet transform and Markov random field. The proposed algorithm employs contourlet transform rather than the conventional wavelet to represent image features and takes into account the correlation between adjacent pixels or image patches through the Markov random field (MRF) model. The input low-resolution (LR) image is decomposed with the contourlet transform and fed to the MRF model together with the contourlet transform coefficients from the low- and high-resolution image pairs in the training set. The unknown high-frequency components/coefficients for the input low-resolution image are inferred by a belief propagation algorithm. Finally, the inverse contourlet transform converts the LR input and the inferred high-frequency coefficients into the super-resolved image. The effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated with the experiments on facial, vehicle plate, and real scene images. A better visual quality is achieved in terms of peak signal to noise ratio and the image structural similarity measurement.

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Wei Wu, Zheng Liu, Wail Gueaieb, and Xiaohai He "Single-image super-resolution based on Markov random field and contourlet transform," Journal of Electronic Imaging 20(2), 023005 (1 April 2011). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3580750

Published: 1 April 2011

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