Superresolution from image sequence

Abstract

Due to cost of hardware, size, and fabrication complexity limitations, imaging systems like CCD detector arrays or digital cameras often provide only multiple low-resolution (LR) degraded images. However, a high-resolution (HR) image is indispensable in many applications including health diagnosis and monitoring, military surveillance, and terrain mapping by remote sensing. Other intriguing possibilities include substituting expensive high-resolution instruments like scanning electron microscopes by their cruder, cheaper counterparts and then applying technical methods for increasing the resolution to that derivable with much more costly equipment. This paper presents a comparison between the various popular approaches to the attaining of superresolution following image acquisition.