Thermal Image Super-Resolution Challenge - PBVS 2021

Rafael E. Rivadeneira, Angel D. Sappa, Boris X. Vintimilla, Sabari Nathan, Priya Kansal, Armin Mehri, Parichehr Behjati Ardakani, Anurag Dalal, Aparna Akula, Darshika Sharma, Shashwat Pandey, Basant Kumar, Jiaxin Yao, Rongyuan Wu, Kai Feng, Ning Li, Yongqiang Zhao, Heena Patel, Vishal Chudasama, Kalpesh Prajapati, Anjali Sarvaiya, Kishor P. Upla, Kiran Raja, Raghavendra Ramachandra, Christoph Busch, Feras Almasri, Thomas Vandamme, Olivier Debeir, Nolan B. Gutierrez, Quan H. Nguyen, William J. Beksi; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, 2021, pp. 4359-4367

Abstract

This paper presents results from the second Thermal Image Super-Resolution (TISR) challenge organized in the framework of the Perception Beyond the Visible Spectrum (PBVS) 2021 workshop. For this second edition, the same thermal image dataset considered during the first challenge has been used; only mid-resolution (MR) and high-resolution (HR) sets have been considered. The dataset consists of 951 training images and 50 testing images for each resolution. A set of 20 images for each resolution is kept aside for evaluation. The two evaluation methodologies proposed for the first challenge are also considered in this opportunity. The first evaluation task consists of measuring the PSNR and SSIM between the obtained SR image and the corresponding ground truth (i.e., the HR thermal image downsampled by four). The second evaluation also consists of measuring the PSNR and SSIM, but in this case, considers the x2 SR obtained from the given MR thermal image; this evaluation is performed between the SR image with respect to the semi-registered HR image, which has been acquired with another camera. The results outperformed those from the first challenge, thus showing an improvement in both evaluation metrics.

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@InProceedings{Rivadeneira_2021_CVPR, author = {Rivadeneira, Rafael E. and Sappa, Angel D. and Vintimilla, Boris X. and Nathan, Sabari and Kansal, Priya and Mehri, Armin and Ardakani, Parichehr Behjati and Dalal, Anurag and Akula, Aparna and Sharma, Darshika and Pandey, Shashwat and Kumar, Basant and Yao, Jiaxin and Wu, Rongyuan and Feng, Kai and Li, Ning and Zhao, Yongqiang and Patel, Heena and Chudasama, Vishal and Prajapati, Kalpesh and Sarvaiya, Anjali and Upla, Kishor P. and Raja, Kiran and Ramachandra, Raghavendra and Busch, Christoph and Almasri, Feras and Vandamme, Thomas and Debeir, Olivier and Gutierrez, Nolan B. and Nguyen, Quan H. and Beksi, William J.}, title = {Thermal Image Super-Resolution Challenge - PBVS 2021}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2021}, pages = {4359-4367} }