Paper ID | MLR-APPL-IP-1.2 | ||
Paper Title | CASCADE ATTENTION BLEND RESIDUAL NETWORK FOR SINGLE IMAGE SUPER-RESOLUTION | ||
Authors | Tianyu Chen, Guoqiang Xiao, Xiaoqin Tang, Xianfeng Han, Southwest University, China; Wenzhuo Ma, Xinye Gou, Chongqing Productivity Council, China | ||
Session | MLR-APPL-IP-1: Machine learning for image processing 1 | ||
Location | Area E | ||
Session Time: | Monday, 20 September, 13:30 - 15:00 | ||
Presentation Time: | Monday, 20 September, 13:30 - 15:00 | ||
Presentation | Poster | ||
Topic | Applications of Machine Learning: Machine learning for image processing | ||
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Abstract | Nowadays, deep convolutional neural networks are playing an increasingly important role in single-image super-resolution vision applications. Yet, most of the existing deep convolution-based methodologies are insufficiently intelligent to capture targeted information when the distribution of spatial and channel information is uneven for low-resolution images. To address this research issue, we propose a cascade attention blend residual network, with the non-local channel and multi-scale attention being considered for channel-wise dependencies and multi-scale receptive fields, respectively. Cascading both attentions in a potent blend residual block aims to learn more spatial and channel correlations between low- and super-resolution images. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method achieves promising performance for super-resolution image reconstruction, as well as gains an average reduction of 50.9\% network parameters, compared to some state-of-the-art methods. |