niazwazir/Image-Super-resolution-via-Patch-wise-Sparse-Recovery

Research on image statistics suggests that image patches can be well represented as a sparse linear combination of elements from an appropriately chosen over-complete dictionary. Inspired by this observation, we seek a sparse representation for each patch of the low-resolution input, and then use the coefficients of this representation to generate the high-resolution output. Theoretical results from compressed sensing suggest that under mild conditions, the sparse representation can be correctly recovered from the downsampled signals. With the requirement that the sparse representation of the low-resolution image patch can well reconstruct its high-resolution counterpart, we train two dictionaries for the low- and high-resolution image patches. The learned dictionary pair is a compact representation adapted to the natural images of interest, which leads to state-of-the-art single image super-resolution performances both quantitatively and qualitatively.