Empowering Real-World Image Super-Resolution With Flexible Interactive Modulation

Interactive image restoration aims to construct an interactive pathway between users and restoration networks, which empowers users to modulate the restoration results according to their own demands. However, existing methods are primarily limited to training their networks with predefined and simpl...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence. - 1979. - 46(2024), 11 vom: 18. Okt., Seite 7317-7330
1. Verfasser: Mou, Chong (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Wang, Xintao, Wu, Yanze, Shan, Ying, Zhang, Jian
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2024
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence
Schlagworte:Journal Article
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Zusammenfassung:Interactive image restoration aims to construct an interactive pathway between users and restoration networks, which empowers users to modulate the restoration results according to their own demands. However, existing methods are primarily limited to training their networks with predefined and simplistic synthetic degradations. Consequently, these methods often encounter significant performance degradation when confronted with real-world degradations that deviate from their assumptions. Furthermore, existing interactive image restoration approaches solely support global modulation, wherein a single modulation factor governs the reconstruction process for the entire image. In this paper, we propose a novel method to perform real-world and intricate image super-resolution in an interactive manner. Specifically, we propose a metric-learning-based degradation estimation strategy to estimate not only the overall degradation level of the entire image but also the finer-grained, pixel-wise degradation within real-world scenarios. This enables local control over the restoration results by selectively modulating the corresponding regions based on the densely-estimated degradation map. Additionally, a new metric-argumented loss is proposed to further enhance the performance of real-world image super-resolution. Through extensive experimentation, we demonstrate the efficacy of our method in achieving exceptional modulation and restoration performance in real-world image super-resolution tasks, all while maintaining an appealing model complexity
Beschreibung:Date Revised 03.10.2024
published: Print-Electronic
Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE
ISSN:1939-3539
DOI:10.1109/TPAMI.2024.3391177