Unpaired Real-World Super-Resolution With Pseudo Controllable Restoration

Andrés Romero, Luc Van Gool, Radu Timofte; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, 2022, pp. 798-807

Abstract


Current super-resolution methods rely on the bicubic down-sampling assumption in order to develop the ill-posed reconstruction of the low-resolution image. Not surprisingly, these approaches fail when using real-world low-resolution images due to the presence of artifacts and intrinsic noise absent in the bicubic setup. Consequently, attention is increasingly paid to techniques that alleviate this problem and super-resolve real-world images. As acquiring paired real-world datasets is a challenging problem, real-world super-resolution solutions are traditionally tackled as a blind problem or as an unpaired data-driven problem. The former makes assumptions about the downsampling operations, the latter uses unpaired training to learn the real distributions. Recently, blind approaches have dominated this problem by assuming a diverse bank of degradations, whereas the unpaired solutions have shown under-performance due to the two-staged training. In this paper, we propose an unpaired real-world super-resolution method that performs on par, or even better than blind paired approaches by introducing a pseudo-controllable restoration module in a fully end-to-end system.

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@InProceedings{Romero_2022_CVPR, author = {Romero, Andr\'es and Van Gool, Luc and Timofte, Radu}, title = {Unpaired Real-World Super-Resolution With Pseudo Controllable Restoration}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2022}, pages = {798-807} }