Tree-Like Branching Network for Single Image Super-Resolution with Divide-and-Conquer

摘要

In this paper, we propose a tree-like branching network for image super-resolution. Specifically, the network consists of information divide-and-conquer groups (IDCG) to preserve the low-frequency structure of images as well as restore high-frequency information. The kernel of IDCG contains several essential components: (a) a simple attention module and an effective residual attention module to maintain low-frequency structures and restore high-frequency information, (b) a novel local merge cell alleviates information redundancy that flexibly and adaptively fuses multiple informative features from different states. Lastly, a multi-scale aggregation unit is designed to improve the final reconstruction. Through a series of experiments, we prove that our method is more effective than previous state-of-the-art results in both quantitative and qualitative evaluation.

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