Super-Resolution using a Multi-Mixture Imaging System

Pixel mixture accelerates a read-out rate of an image, but it lowers the resolution. Although super-resolution is famous technique to improve the resolution, the super-resolution can not improve the resolution from the pixel mixture images because the pixel mixture images are low-passed to reduce aliasing. Therefore, we propose a novel imaging system that we call "multi-mixture". The proposed imaging system can generate two types of image sequences. This paper demonstrates that the super-resolution using the multi-mixture imaging system greatly improves the image resolution.

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