High-Resolution Image Interpolation Using Two-Dimensional Lagrange-Type Variable Fractional-Delay Filter

We have theoretically proved the Liu-Wei’s closedform formula for computing the coefficients of onedimensional (1-D) variable fractional-delay (VFD) finiteimpulse-response (FIR) digital filter derived from N -th order interpolating polynomial. In this paper, we extend the 1-D VFD filter design to the two-dimensional (2-D) case and show that the image interpolation using VFD filtering can achieve higher resolution image than the conventional interpolation techniques such as zero-order interpolation, bilinear interpolation, and 6-term polynomial interpolation.