Noisy Single Image Super-Resolution Based on Local Fractal Feature Analysis

Generally, most existing super-resolution (SR) methods do not consider noise, which treats SR reconstruction and denoising as two separate problems and performs separately. However, noise is inevitably introduced in the imaging process. Based on analysis of the degraded model, in this paper, the pro...

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Main Authors: Kai Shao, Qinglan Fan, Yunfeng Zhang, Fangxun Bao, Caiming Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2021-01-01
Series:IEEE Access
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9360544/
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Summary:Generally, most existing super-resolution (SR) methods do not consider noise, which treats SR reconstruction and denoising as two separate problems and performs separately. However, noise is inevitably introduced in the imaging process. Based on analysis of the degraded model, in this paper, the problems of interpolation and denoising are modeled to estimate the noiseless and missing images under the same framework. By applying local fractal dimension (LFD) into image local feature analysis, a noisy single-image SR method is proposed. For each noisy image, we first construct a rational fractal interpolation model containing scaling factors, which can effectively maintain the inherent properties of the data. Furthermore, the original image structure can be well preserved by applying the interpolation model. Considering the local characteristics of the image, scaling factors are calculated on the basis of the LFDs. Then, through further local feature analysis of the interpolated image, a denoising method based on LFD is proposed for recovering a noiseless image. Finally, a high-quality high-resolution image is obtained. Experimental results demonstrate that our method outperforms the state-of-the-art methods both quantitatively and qualitatively.
ISSN:2169-3536