Single reference super-resolution using inter-subband correlation of directional edge

Abstract

We propose an efficient single reference superresolution system based on the discrete wavelet transform. We assume that the low-resolution image to be enhanced is the low-frequency subband of the high-resolution image to be reconstructed. We design a support vector machine synthesizing the high-frequency subband based on the inter-subband correlation of the directional edges. Experimental results of sample images show that the proposed system offers improvements in terms of both measured distortion and subjective appearance.