Superresolution imaging: a survey of current techniques

G. Cristóbal; E. Gil; F. Šroubek; J. Flusser; C. Miravet; F. B. Rodríguez

doi:10.1117/12.797302

3 September 2008 Superresolution imaging: a survey of current techniques

G. Cristóbal, E. Gil, F. Šroubek, J. Flusser, C. Miravet, F. B. Rodríguez

Proceedings Volume 7074, Advanced Signal Processing Algorithms, Architectures, and Implementations XVIII; 70740C (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.797302
Event: Optical Engineering + Applications, 2008, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Imaging plays a key role in many diverse areas of application, such as astronomy, remote sensing, microscopy, and tomography. Owing to imperfections of measuring devices (e.g., optical degradations, limited size of sensors) and instability of the observed scene (e.g., object motion, media turbulence), acquired images can be indistinct, noisy, and may exhibit insuffcient spatial and temporal resolution. In particular, several external effects blur images. Techniques for recovering the original image include blind deconvolution (to remove blur) and superresolution (SR). The stability of these methods depends on having more than one image of the same frame. Differences between images are necessary to provide new information, but they can be almost unperceivable. State-of-the-art SR techniques achieve remarkable results in resolution enhancement by estimating the subpixel shifts between images, but they lack any apparatus for calculating the blurs. In this paper, after introducing a review of current SR techniques we describe two recently developed SR methods by the authors. First, we introduce a variational method that minimizes a regularized energy function with respect to the high resolution image and blurs. In this way we establish a unifying way to simultaneously estimate the blurs and the high resolution image. By estimating blurs we automatically estimate shifts with subpixel accuracy, which is inherent for good SR performance. Second, an innovative learning-based algorithm using a neural architecture for SR is described. Comparative experiments on real data illustrate the robustness and utilization of both methods.

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G. Cristóbal, E. Gil, F. Šroubek, J. Flusser, C. Miravet, and F. B. Rodríguez "Superresolution imaging: a survey of current techniques", Proc. SPIE 7074, Advanced Signal Processing Algorithms, Architectures, and Implementations XVIII, 70740C (3 September 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.797302

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