Learning a Single Network for Scale-Arbitrary Super-Resolution

Longguang Wang, Yingqian Wang, Zaiping Lin, Jungang Yang, Wei An, Yulan Guo; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2021, pp. 4801-4810

Abstract


Recently, the performance of single image super-resolution (SR) has been significantly improved with powerful networks. However, these networks are developed for image SR with specific integer scale factors (e.g., x2/3/4), and cannot handle non-integer and asymmetric SR. In this paper, we propose to learn a scale-arbitrary image SR network from scale-specific networks. Specifically, we develop a plug-in module for existing SR networks to perform scale-arbitrary SR, which consists of multiple scale-aware feature adaption blocks and a scale-aware upsampling layer. Moreover, conditional convolution is used in our plug-in module to generate dynamic scale-aware filters, which enables our network to adapt to arbitrary scale factors. Our plug-in module can be easily adapted to existing networks to realize scale-arbitrary SR with a single model. These networks plugged with our module can produce promising results for non-integer and asymmetric SR while maintaining state-of-the-art performance for SR with integer scale factors. Besides, the additional computational and memory cost of our module is very small.

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[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Wang_2021_ICCV, author = {Wang, Longguang and Wang, Yingqian and Lin, Zaiping and Yang, Jungang and An, Wei and Guo, Yulan}, title = {Learning a Single Network for Scale-Arbitrary Super-Resolution}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)}, month = {October}, year = {2021}, pages = {4801-4810} }