Single Image Super-Resolution from Transformed Self-Exemplars (CVPR 2015)

Introduction

This is the research code for the paper:

Jia-Bin Huang, Abhishek Singh, and [Narendra Ahuja] (http://vision.ai.illinois.edu/ahuja.html), "Single Image Super-Resolution from Transformed Self-Exemplars", CVPR 2015 PDF

The proposed algorithm achieves the state-of-the-art performance on image super-resolution without the need of any external training dataset, feature extraction and complicated learning algorithms. For more details, please visit our Project page.

All the datasets (Set5, Set14, Urban 100, BSD 100, Sun-Hays 80), precomputed results and visual comparisons can be found in the following sections.

Citation

If you find the code and dataset useful in your research, please consider citing:

@inproceedings{Huang-CVPR-2015,
    title={Single Image Super-Resolution From Transformed Self-Exemplars},
    Author = {Huang, Jia-Bin and Singh, Abhishek and Ahuja, Narendra},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition},
    pages={5197--5206},
    Year = {2015}
}

Contents

Folder	description
cache	cached data for vanishing point detection
data	Testing images of five datasets (Set5, Set14, Urban 100, BSD 100, Sun-Hays 80). All the images have been cropped according to the desired super-resolution factor. This avoids misalignment of the groundtruth high-resolution images and the super-resolved images
external	We use the vgg_interp2 from imrender to perform bilinear interpolation
quant_eval	Quantitative evaluation code
reference	A copy of the CVPR paper and the bibtex
source	MATLAB source code

To run the algorithm on all datasets, simply run the sr_demo_bacth.m. Note that it is an educational code that is not optimized for speed. If timing is a concern, you can achieve visually similar results with small numbers of iterations, e.g., set the number of iterations opt.numIter = 5; in the file sr_init_opt.m. An example of the speed and quality trade-off can be found in Fig. 10 in the paper.

Feedbacks and comments are welcome! Feel free to contact me via jbhuang1@illinois.edu.

Enjoy!

Note: For vanishing point detection only windows executable is provided (from Image Completion using Planar Structure Guidance), a cross-platform version will be included later.

Comparison with the state-of-the-art

Datasets

The full super-resolution results on Set 5, Set 14, Urban 100, BSD 100 and Sun-Hays 80 are available.

| Dataset | Image source | Download full results | |---- | ---|----| ----| | Set 5 | Bevilacqua et al. BMVC 2012 | link (16.1 MB)| | Set 14 | Zeyde et al. LNCS 2010 | link (86.0 MB)| | Urban 100 | Huang et al. CVPR 2015 | link (1.14 GB)| | BSD 100 | Martin et al. ICCV 2001 | link (568 MB)| | Sun-Hays 80 | Sun and Hays ICCP 2012 | link (311 MB)|

Set 5 dataset - link

Set 14 dataset - link

Urban 100 dataset - link

BSD 100 dataset - link

Sun-Hays 80 dataset - link

State-of-the-art image super-resolution algorithms

In each dataset, we include results of the state-of-the-art single image super-resolution algorithms:

Image	Description
HR	High-resolution images. All images were cropped so that each dimension is a multiplication of the super-resolution factor. This avoids the misalignment problem in the quantitative comparison.
LR	Low-resolution test images generated with bicubic kernel downsampling.
bicubic	Bicubic interpolation
nearest	Nearest-neighbor interpolation
SelfExSR	Our result
A+	R. Timofte, V. De Smet, and L. Van Gool, A+: Adjusted Anchored Neighborhood Regression for Fast Super-Resolution. In Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV 2014). Code available here
Abhishek	A. Singh and N. Ahuja, Super-Resolution Using Sub-Band Self-Similarity. In Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV 2014). No publicly implementation available. Results were provided by the authors.
Kim	K. I. Kim and Y. Kwon, “Single-image super-resolution using sparse regression and natural image prior”, IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 32, no. 6, pp. 1127-1133, 2010. Code available here
Glasner	Daniel Glasner, Shai Bagon, Michal Irani. Super-Resolution From a Single Image, In International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2009). No public implementation available. Results were generated by our own implementation.
ScSR	Jianchao Yang, John Wright, Thomas Huang, and Yi Ma. Image super-resolution via sparse representation. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol 19, Issue 11, pp2861-2873, 2010. Code available here
SRCNN	Chao Dong, Chen Change Loy, Kaiming He, Xiaoou Tang. Learning a Deep Convolutional Network for Image Super-Resolution, in European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2014). Code available here

Qualitative comparison

In our supplementary material, we includde 120 sample comparisons with the state-of-the-art algorithms. Download the document here.

You can browse and compare our results with other methods via the following links.

• Urbana 100 - Super-resolution factor 4x
• BSD 100 - Super-resolution factor 3x
• Sun-Hays 80 - Super-resolution factor 8x

Quantitative comparisons

We report three types of metrics

• PSNR: Peak signal-to-noise ratio
• SSIM: Structural similarity index
• IFC: Information fidelity criterion

Results on Set 5

Scale	Bicubic	ScSR	Kim	Sub-band	Glasner	SRCNN	A+	Ours
2x - PSNR	33.64	35.78	36.24	Sub-band	35.43	36.28	A+	36.50
3x - PSNR	30.39	31.34	32.30	Sub-band	31.10	32.37	A+	32.62
4x - PSNR	28.42	29.07	30.07	Sub-band	28.84	30.08	A+	30.33
2x - SSIM	0.9292	0.9485	0.9518	Sub-band	0.9452	0.9509	A+	0.9537
3x - SSIM	0.8678	0.8869	0.9041	Sub-band	0.8811	0.9025	A+	0.9094
4x - SSIM	0.8101	0.8263	0.8553	Sub-band	0.8210	0.8525	A+	0.8623
2x - IFC	5.72	6.94	7.05	Sub-band	6.70	6.85	A+	7.83
3x - IFC	3.45	3.98	4.25	Sub-band	3.68	4.11	A+	4.76
4x - IFC	2.28	2.57	2.82	Sub-band	2.42	2.76	A+	3.19

Results on Set 14

Scale	Bicubic	ScSR	Kim	Sub-band	Glasner	SRCNN	A+	Ours
2x - PSNR	30.22	31.64	32.14	Sub-band	31.41	32.00	A+	32.23
3x - PSNR	27.53	28.19	28.96	Sub-band	28.21	28.90	A+	29.16
4x - PSNR	25.99	26.40	27.18	Sub-band	26.43	27.13	A+	27.40
2x - SSIM	0.8683	0.8940	0.9031	Sub-band	0.8881	0.9012	A+	0.9036
3x - SSIM	0.7737	0.7977	0.8140	Sub-band	0.7926	0.8124	A+	0.8197
4x - SSIM	0.7023	0.7218	0.7434	Sub-band	0.7163	0.7395	A+	0.7518
2x - IFC	5.74	6.83	6.92	Sub-band	6.47	6.68	A+	7.60
3x - IFC	3.33	3.75	3.92	Sub-band	3.59	3.81	A+	4.38
4x - IFC	2.18	2.46	2.57	Sub-band	2.30	2.50	A+	2.90

Results on Urban 100

Scale	Bicubic	ScSR	Kim	Sub-band	Glasner	SRCNN	A+	Ours
2x - PSNR	26.66	28.26	28.74	28.34	27.85	28.65	28.87	29.38
4x - PSNR	23.14	24.02	24.20	24.19	23.58	24.14	24.34	24.82
2x - SSIM	0.8408	0.8828	0.8940	0.8820	0.8709	0.8909	0.8957	0.9032
4x - SSIM	0.6573	0.7024	0.7104	0.7115	0.6736	0.7047	0.7195	0.7386
2x - IFC	5.72	6.98	6.86	7.08	6.17	6.66	8.02	7.96
4x - IFC	2.27	2.75	2.71	2.72	2.35	2.63	3.16	3.33

Results on BSD 100

Scale	Bicubic	ScSR	Kim	Sub-band	Glasner	SRCNN	A+	Ours
2x - PSNR	29.55	30.77	31.11	30.73	30.28	31.11	31.22	31.18
3x - PSNR	27.20	27.72	28.17	27.88	27.06	28.20	28.30	28.30
4x - PSNR	25.96	26.61	26.71	26.60	26.17	26.70	26.82	26.85
2x - SSIM	0.8425	0.8744	0.8840	0.8774	0.8621	0.8835	0.8862	0.8855
3x - SSIM	0.7382	0.7647	0.7788	0.7714	0.7368	0.7794	0.7836	0.7843
4x - SSIM	0.6672	0.6983	0.7027	0.7021	0.6747	0.7018	0.7089	0.7108
2x - IFC	5.26	6.20	6.30	6.36	5.56	6.09	7.15	6.84
3x - IFC	3.00	3.37	3.49	3.17	2.72	3.39	3.92	3.81
4x - IFC	1.91	2.22	2.20	2.18	1.86	2.18	2.51	2.46