An efficient example-based approach for image super-resolution

A novel algorithm for image super-resolution with class-specific predictors is proposed in this paper. In our algorithm, the training example images are classified into several classes, and each patch of a low-resolution image is classified into one of these classes. Each class has its high-frequency information inferred using a class-specific predictor, which is trained via the training samples from the same class. In this paper, two different types of training sets are employed to investigate the impact of the training database to be used. Experimental results have shown the superior performance of our method.

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