Deep Back-Projection Networks For Super-Resolution

The feed-forward architectures of recently proposed deep super-resolution networks learn representations of low-resolution inputs, and the non-linear mapping from those to high-resolution output. However, this approach does not fully address the mutual dependencies of low- and high-resolution images. We propose Deep Back-Projection Networks (DBPN), that exploit iterative up- and down-sampling layers, providing an error feedback mechanism for projection errors at each stage. We construct mutually-connected up- and down-sampling stages each of which represents different types of image degradation and high-resolution components. We show that extending this idea to allow concatenation of features across up- and down-sampling stages (Dense DBPN) allows us to reconstruct further improve super-resolution, yielding superior results and in particular establishing new state of the art results for large scaling factors such as 8x across multiple data sets.

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Task Dataset Model Metric Name Metric Value Global Rank Result Benchmark
Image Super-Resolution BSD100 - 4x upscaling D-DBPN PSNR 27.72 # 18
SSIM 0.740 # 24
Image Super-Resolution Manga109 - 4x upscaling D-DBPN SSIM 0.914 # 27
Image Super-Resolution Set14 - 4x upscaling D-DBPN PSNR 28.82 # 27
SSIM 0.786 # 33
Image Super-Resolution Urban100 - 4x upscaling D-DBPN SSIM 0.795 # 24
Video Super-Resolution Vid4 - 4x upscaling DBPN PSNR 25.37 # 16
SSIM 0.737 # 16

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