Undertrained Image Reconstruction for Realistic Degradation in Blind Image Super-Resolution

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Hauptverfasser: Ito, Ru, Viriyavisuthisakul, Supatta, Kawamoto, Kazuhiko, Kera, Hiroshi
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author Ito, Ru
Viriyavisuthisakul, Supatta
Kawamoto, Kazuhiko
Kera, Hiroshi
author_facet Ito, Ru
Viriyavisuthisakul, Supatta
Kawamoto, Kazuhiko
Kera, Hiroshi
contents Most super-resolution (SR) models struggle with real-world low-resolution (LR) images. This issue arises because the degradation characteristics in the synthetic datasets differ from those in real-world LR images. Since SR models are trained on pairs of high-resolution (HR) and LR images generated by downsampling, they are optimized for simple degradation. However, real-world LR images contain complex degradation caused by factors such as the imaging process and JPEG compression. Due to these differences in degradation characteristics, most SR models perform poorly on real-world LR images. This study proposes a dataset generation method using undertrained image reconstruction models. These models have the property of reconstructing low-quality images with diverse degradation from input images. By leveraging this property, this study generates LR images with diverse degradation from HR images to construct the datasets. Fine-tuning pre-trained SR models on our generated datasets improves noise removal and blur reduction, enhancing performance on real-world LR images. Furthermore, an analysis of the datasets reveals that degradation diversity contributes to performance improvements, whereas color differences between HR and LR images may degrade performance. 11 pages, (11 figures and 2 tables)
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spellingShingle Undertrained Image Reconstruction for Realistic Degradation in Blind Image Super-Resolution
Ito, Ru
Viriyavisuthisakul, Supatta
Kawamoto, Kazuhiko
Kera, Hiroshi
Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Most super-resolution (SR) models struggle with real-world low-resolution (LR) images. This issue arises because the degradation characteristics in the synthetic datasets differ from those in real-world LR images. Since SR models are trained on pairs of high-resolution (HR) and LR images generated by downsampling, they are optimized for simple degradation. However, real-world LR images contain complex degradation caused by factors such as the imaging process and JPEG compression. Due to these differences in degradation characteristics, most SR models perform poorly on real-world LR images. This study proposes a dataset generation method using undertrained image reconstruction models. These models have the property of reconstructing low-quality images with diverse degradation from input images. By leveraging this property, this study generates LR images with diverse degradation from HR images to construct the datasets. Fine-tuning pre-trained SR models on our generated datasets improves noise removal and blur reduction, enhancing performance on real-world LR images. Furthermore, an analysis of the datasets reveals that degradation diversity contributes to performance improvements, whereas color differences between HR and LR images may degrade performance. 11 pages, (11 figures and 2 tables)
title Undertrained Image Reconstruction for Realistic Degradation in Blind Image Super-Resolution
topic Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.02767