PlainUSR: Chasing Faster ConvNet for Efficient Super-Resolution

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Autores principales: Wang, Yan, Li, Yusen, Wang, Gang, Liu, Xiaoguang
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Publicado: 2024
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author Wang, Yan
Li, Yusen
Wang, Gang
Liu, Xiaoguang
author_facet Wang, Yan
Li, Yusen
Wang, Gang
Liu, Xiaoguang
contents Reducing latency is a roaring trend in recent super-resolution (SR) research. While recent progress exploits various convolutional blocks, attention modules, and backbones to unlock the full potentials of the convolutional neural network (ConvNet), achieving real-time performance remains a challenge. To this end, we present PlainUSR, a novel framework incorporating three pertinent modifications to expedite ConvNet for efficient SR. For the convolutional block, we squeeze the lighter but slower MobileNetv3 block into a heavier but faster vanilla convolution by reparameterization tricks to balance memory access and calculations. For the attention module, by modulating input with a regional importance map and gate, we introduce local importance-based attention to realize high-order information interaction within a 1-order attention latency. As to the backbone, we propose a plain U-Net that executes channel-wise discriminate splitting and concatenation. In the experimental phase, PlainUSR exhibits impressively low latency, great scalability, and competitive performance compared to both state-of-the-art latency-oriented and quality-oriented methods. In particular, compared to recent NGswin, the PlainUSR-L is 16.4x faster with competitive performance.
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spellingShingle PlainUSR: Chasing Faster ConvNet for Efficient Super-Resolution
Wang, Yan
Li, Yusen
Wang, Gang
Liu, Xiaoguang
Image and Video Processing
Reducing latency is a roaring trend in recent super-resolution (SR) research. While recent progress exploits various convolutional blocks, attention modules, and backbones to unlock the full potentials of the convolutional neural network (ConvNet), achieving real-time performance remains a challenge. To this end, we present PlainUSR, a novel framework incorporating three pertinent modifications to expedite ConvNet for efficient SR. For the convolutional block, we squeeze the lighter but slower MobileNetv3 block into a heavier but faster vanilla convolution by reparameterization tricks to balance memory access and calculations. For the attention module, by modulating input with a regional importance map and gate, we introduce local importance-based attention to realize high-order information interaction within a 1-order attention latency. As to the backbone, we propose a plain U-Net that executes channel-wise discriminate splitting and concatenation. In the experimental phase, PlainUSR exhibits impressively low latency, great scalability, and competitive performance compared to both state-of-the-art latency-oriented and quality-oriented methods. In particular, compared to recent NGswin, the PlainUSR-L is 16.4x faster with competitive performance.
title PlainUSR: Chasing Faster ConvNet for Efficient Super-Resolution
topic Image and Video Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.13435