Real-world image super-resolution (RISR) has received increased focus for improving the quality of SR images under unknown complex degradation. Existing methods rely on the heavy SR models to enhance low-resolution (LR) images of different degradation levels, which significantly restricts their practical deployments on resource-limited devices. In this paper, we propose a novel Dynamic Channel Splitting scheme for efficient Real-world Image Super-Resolution, termed DCS-RISR. Specifically, we first introduce the light degradation prediction network to regress the degradation vector to simulate the real-world degradations, upon which the channel splitting vector is generated as the input for an efficient SR model. Then, a learnable octave convolution block is proposed to adaptively decide the channel splitting scale for low- and high-frequency features at each block, reducing computation overhead and memory cost by offering the large scale to low-frequency features and the small scale to the high ones. To further improve the RISR performance, Non-local regularization is employed to supplement the knowledge of patches from LR and HR subspace with free-computation inference. Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of DCS-RISR on different benchmark datasets. Our DCS-RISR not only achieves the best trade-off between computation/parameter and PSNR/SSIM metric, and also effectively handles real-world images with different degradation levels.

盲级超分辨率（SR）旨在从低分辨率（LR）图像中恢复高质量的视觉纹理，通常通过下采样模糊内核和添加剂噪声来降解。由于现实世界中复杂的图像降解的挑战，此任务非常困难。现有的SR方法要么假定预定义的模糊内核或固定噪声，这限制了这些方法在具有挑战性的情况下。在本文中，我们提出了一个用于盲目超级分辨率（DMSR）的降解引导的元修复网络，该网络促进了真实病例的图像恢复。 DMSR由降解提取器和元修复模块组成。萃取器估计LR输入中的降解，并指导元恢复模块以预测恢复参数的恢复参数。 DMSR通过新颖的降解一致性损失和重建损失共同优化。通过这样的优化，DMSR在三个广泛使用的基准上以很大的边距优于SOTA。一项包括16个受试者的用户研究进一步验证了现实世界中的盲目SR任务中DMSR的优势。

Existing convolutional neural networks (CNN) based image super-resolution (SR) methods have achieved impressive performance on bicubic kernel, which is not valid to handle unknown degradations in real-world applications. Recent blind SR methods suggest to reconstruct SR images relying on blur kernel estimation. However, their results still remain visible artifacts and detail distortion due to the estimation errors. To alleviate these problems, in this paper, we propose an effective and kernel-free network, namely DSSR, which enables recurrent detail-structure alternative optimization without blur kernel prior incorporation for blind SR. Specifically, in our DSSR, a detail-structure modulation module (DSMM) is built to exploit the interaction and collaboration of image details and structures. The DSMM consists of two components: a detail restoration unit (DRU) and a structure modulation unit (SMU). The former aims at regressing the intermediate HR detail reconstruction from LR structural contexts, and the latter performs structural contexts modulation conditioned on the learned detail maps at both HR and LR spaces. Besides, we use the output of DSMM as the hidden state and design our DSSR architecture from a recurrent convolutional neural network (RCNN) view. In this way, the network can alternatively optimize the image details and structural contexts, achieving co-optimization across time. Moreover, equipped with the recurrent connection, our DSSR allows low- and high-level feature representations complementary by observing previous HR details and contexts at every unrolling time. Extensive experiments on synthetic datasets and real-world images demonstrate that our method achieves the state-of-the-art against existing methods. The source code can be found at https://github.com/Arcananana/DSSR.

Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)-based image super-resolution (SR) has exhibited impressive success on known degraded low-resolution (LR) images. However, this type of approach is hard to hold its performance in practical scenarios when the degradation process is unknown. Despite existing blind SR methods proposed to solve this problem using blur kernel estimation, the perceptual quality and reconstruction accuracy are still unsatisfactory. In this paper, we analyze the degradation of a high-resolution (HR) image from image intrinsic components according to a degradation-based formulation model. We propose a components decomposition and co-optimization network (CDCN) for blind SR. Firstly, CDCN decomposes the input LR image into structure and detail components in feature space. Then, the mutual collaboration block (MCB) is presented to exploit the relationship between both two components. In this way, the detail component can provide informative features to enrich the structural context and the structure component can carry structural context for better detail revealing via a mutual complementary manner. After that, we present a degradation-driven learning strategy to jointly supervise the HR image detail and structure restoration process. Finally, a multi-scale fusion module followed by an upsampling layer is designed to fuse the structure and detail features and perform SR reconstruction. Empowered by such degradation-based components decomposition, collaboration, and mutual optimization, we can bridge the correlation between component learning and degradation modelling for blind SR, thereby producing SR results with more accurate textures. Extensive experiments on both synthetic SR datasets and real-world images show that the proposed method achieves the state-of-the-art performance compared to existing methods.

Blind image super-resolution (Blind-SR) aims to recover a high-resolution (HR) image from its corresponding low-resolution (LR) input image with unknown degradations. Most of the existing works design an explicit degradation estimator for each degradation to guide SR. However, it is infeasible to provide concrete labels of multiple degradation combinations (\eg, blur, noise, jpeg compression) to supervise the degradation estimator training. In addition, these special designs for certain degradation, such as blur, impedes the models from being generalized to handle different degradations. To this end, it is necessary to design an implicit degradation estimator that can extract discriminative degradation representation for all degradations without relying on the supervision of degradation ground-truth. In this paper, we propose a Knowledge Distillation based Blind-SR network (KDSR). It consists of a knowledge distillation based implicit degradation estimator network (KD-IDE) and an efficient SR network. To learn the KDSR model, we first train a teacher network: KD-IDE$_{T}$. It takes paired HR and LR patches as inputs and is optimized with the SR network jointly. Then, we further train a student network KD-IDE$_{S}$, which only takes LR images as input and learns to extract the same implicit degradation representation (IDR) as KD-IDE$_{T}$. In addition, to fully use extracted IDR, we design a simple, strong, and efficient IDR based dynamic convolution residual block (IDR-DCRB) to build an SR network. We conduct extensive experiments under classic and real-world degradation settings. The results show that KDSR achieves SOTA performance and can generalize to various degradation processes. The source codes and pre-trained models will be released.

近年来，压缩图像超分辨率已引起了极大的关注，其中图像被压缩伪像和低分辨率伪影降解。由于复杂的杂化扭曲变形，因此很难通过简单的超分辨率和压缩伪像消除掉的简单合作来恢复扭曲的图像。在本文中，我们向前迈出了一步，提出了层次的SWIN变压器（HST）网络，以恢复低分辨率压缩图像，该图像共同捕获分层特征表示并分别用SWIN Transformer增强每个尺度表示。此外，我们发现具有超分辨率（SR）任务的预处理对于压缩图像超分辨率至关重要。为了探索不同的SR预审查的影响，我们将常用的SR任务（例如，比科比奇和不同的实际超分辨率仿真）作为我们的预处理任务，并揭示了SR在压缩的图像超分辨率中起不可替代的作用。随着HST和预训练的合作，我们的HST在AIM 2022挑战中获得了低质量压缩图像超分辨率轨道的第五名，PSNR为23.51db。广泛的实验和消融研究已经验证了我们提出的方法的有效性。

近年来，在光场（LF）图像超分辨率（SR）中，深度神经网络（DNN）的巨大进展。但是，现有的基于DNN的LF图像SR方法是在单个固定降解（例如，双学的下采样）上开发的，因此不能应用于具有不同降解的超级溶解实际LF图像。在本文中，我们提出了第一种处理具有多个降解的LF图像SR的方法。在我们的方法中，开发了一个实用的LF降解模型，以近似于真实LF图像的降解过程。然后，降解自适应网络（LF-DANET）旨在将降解之前纳入SR过程。通过对具有多种合成降解的LF图像进行训练，我们的方法可以学会适应不同的降解，同时结合了空间和角度信息。对合成降解和现实世界LFS的广泛实验证明了我们方法的有效性。与现有的最新单一和LF图像SR方法相比，我们的方法在广泛的降解范围内实现了出色的SR性能，并且可以更好地推广到真实的LF图像。代码和模型可在https://github.com/yingqianwang/lf-danet上找到。

Informative features play a crucial role in the single image super-resolution task. Channel attention has been demonstrated to be effective for preserving information-rich features in each layer. However, channel attention treats each convolution layer as a separate process that misses the correlation among different layers. To address this problem, we propose a new holistic attention network (HAN), which consists of a layer attention module (LAM) and a channel-spatial attention module (CSAM), to model the holistic interdependencies among layers, channels, and positions. Specifically, the proposed LAM adaptively emphasizes hierarchical features by considering correlations among layers. Meanwhile, CSAM learns the confidence at all the positions of each channel to selectively capture more informative features. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed HAN performs favorably against the state-ofthe-art single image super-resolution approaches.

现实世界图像超分辨率（SR）的关键挑战是在低分辨率（LR）图像中恢复具有复杂未知降解（例如，下采样，噪声和压缩）的缺失细节。大多数以前的作品还原图像空间中的此类缺失细节。为了应对自然图像的高度多样性，他们要么依靠难以训练和容易训练和伪影的不稳定的甘体，要么诉诸于通常不可用的高分辨率（HR）图像中的明确参考。在这项工作中，我们提出了匹配SR（FEMASR）的功能，该功能在更紧凑的特征空间中恢复了现实的HR图像。与图像空间方法不同，我们的FEMASR通过将扭曲的LR图像{\ IT特征}与我们预读的HR先验中的无失真性HR对应物匹配来恢复HR图像，并解码匹配的功能以获得现实的HR图像。具体而言，我们的人力资源先验包含一个离散的特征代码簿及其相关的解码器，它们在使用量化的生成对抗网络（VQGAN）的HR图像上预估计。值得注意的是，我们在VQGAN中结合了一种新型的语义正则化，以提高重建图像的质量。对于功能匹配，我们首先提取由LR编码器组成的LR编码器的LR功能，然后遵循简单的最近邻居策略，将其与预读的代码簿匹配。特别是，我们为LR编码器配备了与解码器的残留快捷方式连接，这对于优化功能匹配损耗至关重要，还有助于补充可能的功能匹配错误。实验结果表明，我们的方法比以前的方法产生更现实的HR图像。代码以\ url {https://github.com/chaofengc/femasr}发布。

基于CNN的大多数超分辨率（SR）方法假设降解是已知的（\ eg，bicubic）。当降解与假设不同时，这些方法将遭受严重的性能下降。因此，一些方法试图通过多种降解的复杂组合来培训SR网络，以涵盖实际的降解空间。为了适应多个未知降解，引入显式降解估计器实际上可以促进SR性能。然而，以前的显式降解估计方法通常可以通过对地面模糊内核的监督来预测高斯的模糊，并且估计错误可能导致SR失败。因此，有必要设计一种可以提取隐式歧视性降解表示的方法。为此，我们提出了一个基于元学习的区域退化意识SR网络（MRDA），包括元学习网络（MLN），降级提取网络（DEN）和区域退化意识SR Network（RDAN）。为了处理缺乏地面污染的降解，我们使用MLN在几次迭代后快速适应特定的复合物降解并提取隐式降解信息。随后，教师网络MRDA $ _ {T} $旨在进一步利用MLN为SR提取的降解信息。但是，MLN需要在配对的低分辨率（LR）和相应的高分辨率（HR）图像上进行迭代，这在推理阶段不可用。因此，我们采用知识蒸馏（KD）来使学生网络学会直接提取与LR图像的老师相同的隐式退化表示（IDR）。

压缩在通过限制系统（例如流媒体服务，虚拟现实或视频游戏）等系统的有效传输和存储图像和视频中起着重要作用。但是，不可避免地会导致伪影和原始信息的丢失，这可能会严重降低视觉质量。由于这些原因，压缩图像的质量增强已成为流行的研究主题。尽管大多数最先进的图像恢复方法基于卷积神经网络，但基于Swinir等其他基于变压器的方法在这些任务上表现出令人印象深刻的性能。在本文中，我们探索了新型的Swin Transformer V2，以改善图像超分辨率的Swinir，尤其是压缩输入方案。使用这种方法，我们可以解决训练变压器视觉模型中的主要问题，例如训练不稳定性，预训练和微调之间的分辨率差距以及数据饥饿。我们对三个代表性任务进行实验：JPEG压缩伪像去除，图像超分辨率（经典和轻巧）以及压缩的图像超分辨率。实验结果表明，我们的方法SWIN2SR可以改善SWINIR的训练收敛性和性能，并且是“ AIM 2022挑战压缩图像和视频的超分辨率”的前5个解决方案。

尽管目前基于深度学习的方法在盲目的单图像超分辨率（SISR）任务中已获得了有希望的表现，但其中大多数主要集中在启发式上构建多样化的网络体系结构，并更少强调对Blur之间的物理发电机制的明确嵌入内核和高分辨率（HR）图像。为了减轻这个问题，我们提出了一个模型驱动的深神经网络，称为blind SISR。具体而言，为了解决经典的SISR模型，我们提出了一种简单的效果迭代算法。然后，通过将所涉及的迭代步骤展开到相应的网络模块中，我们自然构建了KXNET。所提出的KXNET的主要特异性是整个学习过程与此SISR任务的固有物理机制完全合理地集成在一起。因此，学习的模糊内核具有清晰的物理模式，并且模糊内核和HR图像之间的相互迭代过程可以很好地指导KXNET沿正确的方向发展。关于合成和真实数据的广泛实验很好地证明了我们方法的卓越准确性和一般性超出了当前代表性的最先进的盲目SISR方法。代码可在：\ url {https://github.com/jiahong-fu/kxnet}中获得。

为了在盲图超级分辨率（SR）上取得有希望的结果，一些尝试利用低分辨率（LR）图像来预测内核并改善SR性能。但是，由于不可用的现实世界模糊内核，这些监督的内核预测（SKP）方法是不切实际的。尽管提出了一些无监督的降解预测（UDP）方法来绕过此问题，但\ textIt {contercestency}之间的降解嵌入和SR功能之间仍然具有挑战性。通过探索降解嵌入与SR功能之间的相关性，我们观察到共同学习内容和降解感知功能是最佳的。基于此观察结果，提出了一个名为CDSR的内容和退化的SR网络。具体而言，CDSR包含三个新建立的模块：（1）将基于重量的编码器（LPE）应用于共同提取内容和降解功能； （2）采用基于域查询的基于注意力的模块（DQA）来适应不一致； （3）基于密码的空格压缩模块（CSC），可以抑制冗余信息。对几个基准测试的广泛实验表明，即使与最先进的SKP方法相比，提议的CDSR的表现都优于现有的UDP模型，并在PSNR和SSIM上实现竞争性能。

Convolutional neural network (CNN) depth is of crucial importance for image super-resolution (SR). However, we observe that deeper networks for image SR are more difficult to train. The lowresolution inputs and features contain abundant low-frequency information, which is treated equally across channels, hence hindering the representational ability of CNNs. To solve these problems, we propose the very deep residual channel attention networks (RCAN). Specifically, we propose a residual in residual (RIR) structure to form very deep network, which consists of several residual groups with long skip connections. Each residual group contains some residual blocks with short skip connections. Meanwhile, RIR allows abundant low-frequency information to be bypassed through multiple skip connections, making the main network focus on learning high-frequency information. Furthermore, we propose a channel attention mechanism to adaptively rescale channel-wise features by considering interdependencies among channels. Extensive experiments show that our RCAN achieves better accuracy and visual improvements against state-of-the-art methods.

随着卷积神经网络最近的大规模发展，已经提出了用于边缘设备上实用部署的大量基于CNN的显着图像超分辨率方法。但是，大多数现有方法都集中在一个特定方面：网络或损失设计，这导致难以最大程度地减少模型大小。为了解决这个问题，我们得出结论，设计，架构搜索和损失设计，以获得更有效的SR结构。在本文中，我们提出了一个名为EFDN的边缘增强功能蒸馏网络，以保留在约束资源下的高频信息。详细说明，我们基于现有的重新处理方法构建了一个边缘增强卷积块。同时，我们提出了边缘增强的梯度损失，以校准重新分配的路径训练。实验结果表明，我们的边缘增强策略可以保持边缘并显着提高最终恢复质量。代码可在https://github.com/icandle/efdn上找到。

虽然单图像超分辨率（SISR）方法在单次降级方面取得了巨大成功，但它们仍然在实际情况下具有多重降低效果的性能下降。最近，已经探索了一些盲人和非盲模范，已经探讨了多重降级。然而，这些方法通常在训练和测试数据之间的分布换档方面显着降低。为此，我们第一次提出了一个条件元网络框架（命名CMDSR），这有助于SR框架了解如何适应输入分布的变化。我们使用所提出的ConditionNet在任务级别提取劣化，该条件将用于调整基本SR网络（BaseNet）的参数。具体而言，我们的框架的ConditionNet首先从支撑集中学习劣化，该支持集由来自相同任务的一系列劣化图像补丁组成。然后，Adaptive BaseNet根据条件特征迅速移动其参数。此外，为了更好地提取劣化，我们提出了一个任务对比损失，以减少内部任务距离，并增加任务级别功能之间的交叉任务距离。在没有预定义的降级地图，我们的盲框可以进行一个参数更新，以产生相当大的SR结果。广泛的实验证明了CMDSR在各种盲，甚至是非盲方法上的有效性。柔性基座结构还揭示了CMDSR可以是大系列SISR模型的一般框架。

Learning continuous image representations is recently gaining popularity for image super-resolution (SR) because of its ability to reconstruct high-resolution images with arbitrary scales from low-resolution inputs. Existing methods mostly ensemble nearby features to predict the new pixel at any queried coordinate in the SR image. Such a local ensemble suffers from some limitations: i) it has no learnable parameters and it neglects the similarity of the visual features; ii) it has a limited receptive field and cannot ensemble relevant features in a large field which are important in an image; iii) it inherently has a gap with real camera imaging since it only depends on the coordinate. To address these issues, this paper proposes a continuous implicit attention-in-attention network, called CiaoSR. We explicitly design an implicit attention network to learn the ensemble weights for the nearby local features. Furthermore, we embed a scale-aware attention in this implicit attention network to exploit additional non-local information. Extensive experiments on benchmark datasets demonstrate CiaoSR significantly outperforms the existing single image super resolution (SISR) methods with the same backbone. In addition, the proposed method also achieves the state-of-the-art performance on the arbitrary-scale SR task. The effectiveness of the method is also demonstrated on the real-world SR setting. More importantly, CiaoSR can be flexibly integrated into any backbone to improve the SR performance.

基于参考的图像超分辨率（REFSR）旨在利用辅助参考（REF）图像为超溶解的低分辨率（LR）图像。最近，RefSR引起了极大的关注，因为它提供了超越单图SR的替代方法。但是，解决REFSR问题有两个关键的挑战：（i）当它们显着不同时，很难匹配LR和Ref图像之间的对应关系； （ii）如何将相关纹理从参考图像转移以补偿LR图像的细节非常具有挑战性。为了解决RefSR的这些问题，本文提出了一个可变形的注意变压器，即DATSR，具有多个尺度，每个尺度由纹理特征编码器（TFE）模块组成，基于参考的可变形注意（RDA）模块和残差功能聚合（RFA）模块。具体而言，TFE首先提取图像转换（例如，亮度）不敏感的LR和REF图像，RDA可以利用多个相关纹理来补偿更多的LR功能信息，而RFA最终汇总了LR功能和相关纹理，以获得更愉快的宜人的质地结果。广泛的实验表明，我们的DATSR在定量和质量上实现了基准数据集上的最新性能。

通过利用大型内核分解和注意机制，卷积神经网络（CNN）可以在许多高级计算机视觉任务中与基于变压器的方法竞争。但是，由于远程建模的优势，具有自我注意力的变压器仍然主导着低级视野，包括超分辨率任务。在本文中，我们提出了一个基于CNN的多尺度注意网络（MAN），该网络由多尺度的大内核注意力（MLKA）和一个封闭式的空间注意单元（GSAU）组成，以提高卷积SR网络的性能。在我们的MLKA中，我们使用多尺度和栅极方案纠正LKA，以在各种粒度水平上获得丰富的注意图，从而共同汇总了全局和局部信息，并避免了潜在的阻塞伪像。在GSAU中，我们集成了栅极机制和空间注意力，以消除不必要的线性层和汇总信息丰富的空间环境。为了确认我们的设计的有效性，我们通过简单地堆叠不同数量的MLKA和GSAU来评估具有多种复杂性的人。实验结果表明，我们的人可以在最先进的绩效和计算之间实现各种权衡。代码可从https://github.com/icandle/man获得。

Video Super-Resolution (VSR) aims to restore high-resolution (HR) videos from low-resolution (LR) videos. Existing VSR techniques usually recover HR frames by extracting pertinent textures from nearby frames with known degradation processes. Despite significant progress, grand challenges are remained to effectively extract and transmit high-quality textures from high-degraded low-quality sequences, such as blur, additive noises, and compression artifacts. In this work, a novel Frequency-Transformer (FTVSR) is proposed for handling low-quality videos that carry out self-attention in a combined space-time-frequency domain. First, video frames are split into patches and each patch is transformed into spectral maps in which each channel represents a frequency band. It permits a fine-grained self-attention on each frequency band, so that real visual texture can be distinguished from artifacts. Second, a novel dual frequency attention (DFA) mechanism is proposed to capture the global frequency relations and local frequency relations, which can handle different complicated degradation processes in real-world scenarios. Third, we explore different self-attention schemes for video processing in the frequency domain and discover that a ``divided attention'' which conducts a joint space-frequency attention before applying temporal-frequency attention, leads to the best video enhancement quality. Extensive experiments on three widely-used VSR datasets show that FTVSR outperforms state-of-the-art methods on different low-quality videos with clear visual margins. Code and pre-trained models are available at https://github.com/researchmm/FTVSR.