The Super-Resolution Generative Adversarial Network (SR-GAN) [1] is a seminal work that is capable of generating realistic textures during single image super-resolution. However, the hallucinated details are often accompanied with unpleasant artifacts. To further enhance the visual quality, we thoroughly study three key components of SRGANnetwork architecture, adversarial loss and perceptual loss, and improve each of them to derive an Enhanced SRGAN (ESRGAN). In particular, we introduce the Residual-in-Residual Dense Block (RRDB) without batch normalization as the basic network building unit. Moreover, we borrow the idea from relativistic GAN [2] to let the discriminator predict relative realness instead of the absolute value. Finally, we improve the perceptual loss by using the features before activation, which could provide stronger supervision for brightness consistency and texture recovery. Benefiting from these improvements, the proposed ESRGAN achieves consistently better visual quality with more realistic and natural textures than SRGAN and won the first place in the PIRM2018-SR Challenge 1 [3]. The code is available at https://github.com/xinntao/ESRGAN.

Despite that convolutional neural networks (CNN) have recently demonstrated high-quality reconstruction for single-image super-resolution (SR), recovering natural and realistic texture remains a challenging problem. In this paper, we show that it is possible to recover textures faithful to semantic classes. In particular, we only need to modulate features of a few intermediate layers in a single network conditioned on semantic segmentation probability maps. This is made possible through a novel Spatial Feature Transform (SFT) layer that generates affine transformation parameters for spatial-wise feature modulation. SFT layers can be trained end-to-end together with the SR network using the same loss function. During testing, it accepts an input image of arbitrary size and generates a high-resolution image with just a single forward pass conditioned on the categorical priors. Our final results show that an SR network equipped with SFT can generate more realistic and visually pleasing textures in comparison to state-of-the-art SRGAN [27] and EnhanceNet [38].

Single image super-resolution is the task of inferring a high-resolution image from a single low-resolution input. Traditionally, the performance of algorithms for this task is measured using pixel-wise reconstruction measures such as peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) which have been shown to correlate poorly with the human perception of image quality. As a result, algorithms minimizing these metrics tend to produce over-smoothed images that lack highfrequency textures and do not look natural despite yielding high PSNR values.We propose a novel application of automated texture synthesis in combination with a perceptual loss focusing on creating realistic textures rather than optimizing for a pixelaccurate reproduction of ground truth images during training. By using feed-forward fully convolutional neural networks in an adversarial training setting, we achieve a significant boost in image quality at high magnification ratios. Extensive experiments on a number of datasets show the effectiveness of our approach, yielding state-of-the-art results in both quantitative and qualitative benchmarks.

我们考虑单个图像超分辨率（SISR）问题，其中基于低分辨率（LR）输入产生高分辨率（HR）图像。最近，生成的对抗性网络（GANS）变得幻觉细节。大多数沿着这条线的方法依赖于预定义的单个LR-intle-hr映射，这对于SISR任务来说是足够灵活的。此外，GaN生成的假细节可能经常破坏整个图像的现实主义。我们通过为Rich-Detail SISR提出最好的伙伴GANS（Beby-GaN）来解决这些问题。放松不变的一对一的约束，我们允许估计的贴片在培训期间动态寻求最佳监督，这有利于产生更合理的细节。此外，我们提出了一种区域感知的对抗性学习策略，指导我们的模型专注于自适应地为纹理区域发电细节。广泛的实验证明了我们方法的有效性。还构建了超高分辨率4K数据集以促进未来的超分辨率研究。

Despite the breakthroughs in accuracy and speed of single image super-resolution using faster and deeper convolutional neural networks, one central problem remains largely unsolved: how do we recover the finer texture details when we super-resolve at large upscaling factors? The behavior of optimization-based super-resolution methods is principally driven by the choice of the objective function. Recent work has largely focused on minimizing the mean squared reconstruction error. The resulting estimates have high peak signal-to-noise ratios, but they are often lacking high-frequency details and are perceptually unsatisfying in the sense that they fail to match the fidelity expected at the higher resolution. In this paper, we present SRGAN, a generative adversarial network (GAN) for image superresolution (SR). To our knowledge, it is the first framework capable of inferring photo-realistic natural images for 4× upscaling factors. To achieve this, we propose a perceptual loss function which consists of an adversarial loss and a content loss. The adversarial loss pushes our solution to the natural image manifold using a discriminator network that is trained to differentiate between the super-resolved images and original photo-realistic images. In addition, we use a content loss motivated by perceptual similarity instead of similarity in pixel space. Our deep residual network is able to recover photo-realistic textures from heavily downsampled images on public benchmarks. An extensive mean-opinion-score (MOS) test shows hugely significant gains in perceptual quality using SRGAN. The MOS scores obtained with SRGAN are closer to those of the original high-resolution images than to those obtained with any state-of-the-art method.

成功地应用生成的对抗性网络（GaN）以研究感知单个图像超级度（SISR）。然而，GaN经常倾向于产生具有高频率细节的图像与真实的细节不一致。灵感来自传统细节增强算法，我们提出了一种新的先前知识，先前的细节，帮助GaN减轻这个问题并恢复更现实的细节。所提出的方法名为DSRAN，包括良好设计的详细提取算法，用于捕获图像中最重要的高频信息。然后，两种鉴别器分别用于在图像域和细节域修复上进行监督。 DSRGAN通过细节增强方式将恢复的细节合并到最终输出中。 DSRGAN的特殊设计从基于模型的常规算法和数据驱动的深度学习网络中获得了优势。实验结果表明，DSRGAN在感知度量上表现出最先进的SISR方法，并同时达到保真度量的可比结果。在DSRGAN之后，将其他传统的图像处理算法结合到深度学习网络中，以形成基于模型的深SISR。

图像超分辨率（SR）是重要的图像处理方法之一，可改善计算机视野领域的图像分辨率。在过去的二十年中，在超级分辨率领域取得了重大进展，尤其是通过使用深度学习方法。这项调查是为了在深度学习的角度进行详细的调查，对单像超分辨率的最新进展进行详细的调查，同时还将告知图像超分辨率的初始经典方法。该调查将图像SR方法分类为四个类别，即经典方法，基于学习的方法，无监督学习的方法和特定领域的SR方法。我们还介绍了SR的问题，以提供有关图像质量指标，可用参考数据集和SR挑战的直觉。使用参考数据集评估基于深度学习的方法。一些审查的最先进的图像SR方法包括增强的深SR网络（EDSR），周期循环gan（Cincgan），多尺度残留网络（MSRN），Meta残留密度网络（META-RDN） ，反复反射网络（RBPN），二阶注意网络（SAN），SR反馈网络（SRFBN）和基于小波的残留注意网络（WRAN）。最后，这项调查以研究人员将解决SR的未来方向和趋势和开放问题的未来方向和趋势。

最近的研究通过卷积神经网络（CNNS）显着提高了单图像超分辨率（SR）的性能。虽然可以有许多用于给定输入的高分辨率（HR）解决方案，但大多数现有的基于CNN的方法在推理期间不会探索替代解决方案。获得替代SR结果的典型方法是培训具有不同丢失权重的多个SR模型，并利用这些模型的组合。我们通过利用多任务学习，我们提出了一种更有效的方法来培训单个可调SR模型的单一可调SR模型。具体地，我们在训练期间优化具有条件目标的SR模型，其中目标是不同特征级别的多个感知损失的加权之和。权重根据给定条件而变化，并且该组重量被定义为样式控制器。此外，我们提出了一种适用于该训练方案的架构，该架构是配备有空间特征变换层的残留残余密集块。在推理阶段，我们培训的模型可以在样式控制地图上生成局部不同的输出。广泛的实验表明，所提出的SR模型在没有伪影的情况下产生各种所需的重建，并对最先进的SR方法产生相当的定量性能。

现实的高光谱图像（HSI）超分辨率（SR）技术旨在从其低分辨率（LR）对应物中产生具有更高光谱和空间忠诚的高分辨率（HR）HSI。生成的对抗网络（GAN）已被证明是图像超分辨率的有效深入学习框架。然而，现有GaN的模型的优化过程经常存在模式崩溃问题，导致光谱间不变重建容量有限。这可能导致所生成的HSI上的光谱空间失真，尤其是具有大的升级因子。为了缓解模式崩溃的问题，这项工作提出了一种与潜在编码器（Le-GaN）耦合的新型GaN模型，其可以将产生的光谱空间特征从图像空间映射到潜在空间并产生耦合组件正规化生成的样本。基本上，我们将HSI视为嵌入在潜在空间中的高维歧管。因此，GaN模型的优化被转换为学习潜在空间中的高分辨率HSI样本的分布的问题，使得产生的超分辨率HSI的分布更接近其原始高分辨率对应物的那些。我们对超级分辨率的模型性能进行了实验评估及其在缓解模式崩溃中的能力。基于具有不同传感器（即Aviris和UHD-185）的两种实际HSI数据集进行了测试和验证，用于各种升高因素并增加噪声水平，并与最先进的超分辨率模型相比（即Hyconet，LTTR，Bagan，SR-GaN，Wgan）。

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs) have exhibited impressive performance on image super-resolution tasks. However, these deep learning-based super-resolution methods perform poorly in real-world super-resolution tasks, where the paired high-resolution and low-resolution images are unavailable and the low-resolution images are degraded by complicated and unknown kernels. To break these limitations, we propose the Unsupervised Bi-directional Cycle Domain Transfer Learning-based Generative Adversarial Network (UBCDTL-GAN), which consists of an Unsupervised Bi-directional Cycle Domain Transfer Network (UBCDTN) and the Semantic Encoder guided Super Resolution Network (SESRN). First, the UBCDTN is able to produce an approximated real-like LR image through transferring the LR image from an artificially degraded domain to the real-world LR image domain. Second, the SESRN has the ability to super-resolve the approximated real-like LR image to a photo-realistic HR image. Extensive experiments on unpaired real-world image benchmark datasets demonstrate that the proposed method achieves superior performance compared to state-of-the-art methods.

随着深度学习（DL）的出现，超分辨率（SR）也已成为一个蓬勃发展的研究领域。然而，尽管结果有希望，但该领域仍然面临需要进一步研究的挑战，例如，允许灵活地采样，更有效的损失功能和更好的评估指标。我们根据最近的进步来回顾SR的域，并检查最新模型，例如扩散（DDPM）和基于变压器的SR模型。我们对SR中使用的当代策略进行了批判性讨论，并确定了有前途但未开发的研究方向。我们通过纳入该领域的最新发展，例如不确定性驱动的损失，小波网络，神经体系结构搜索，新颖的归一化方法和最新评估技术来补充先前的调查。我们还为整章中的模型和方法提供了几种可视化，以促进对该领域趋势的全球理解。最终，这篇综述旨在帮助研究人员推动DL应用于SR的界限。

Face super-resolution is a domain-specific image super-resolution, which aims to generate High-Resolution (HR) face images from their Low-Resolution (LR) counterparts. In this paper, we propose a novel face super-resolution method, namely Semantic Encoder guided Generative Adversarial Face Ultra-Resolution Network (SEGA-FURN) to ultra-resolve an unaligned tiny LR face image to its HR counterpart with multiple ultra-upscaling factors (e.g., 4x and 8x). The proposed network is composed of a novel semantic encoder that has the ability to capture the embedded semantics to guide adversarial learning and a novel generator that uses a hierarchical architecture named Residual in Internal Dense Block (RIDB). Moreover, we propose a joint discriminator which discriminates both image data and embedded semantics. The joint discriminator learns the joint probability distribution of the image space and latent space. We also use a Relativistic average Least Squares loss (RaLS) as the adversarial loss to alleviate the gradient vanishing problem and enhance the stability of the training procedure. Extensive experiments on large face datasets have proved that the proposed method can achieve superior super-resolution results and significantly outperform other state-of-the-art methods in both qualitative and quantitative comparisons.

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。

尽管应用于自然图像的大量成功的超分辨率重建（SRR）模型，但它们在遥感图像中的应用往往会产生差的结果。遥感图像通常比自然图像更复杂，并且具有较低分辨率的特殊性，它包含噪音，并且通常描绘了大质感表面。结果，将非专业的SRR模型应用于遥感图像，从而导致人工制品和不良的重建。为了解决这些问题，本文提出了一种受到先前研究工作启发的体系结构，引入了一种新的方法来迫使SRR模型输出现实的遥感图像：而不是依靠功能空间相似性作为感知损失，而是将其视为Pixel-从图像的归一化数字表面模型（NDSM）推断出的级别信息。该策略允许在训练模型期间应用更具信息的更新，该模型从任务（高程图推理）源中源，该模型与遥感密切相关。但是，在生产过程中不需要NDSM辅助信息，因此该模型除了其低分辨率对以外没有任何其他数据，因此该模型还没有任何其他数据。我们在两个远程感知的不同空间分辨率的数据集上评估了我们的模型，这些数据集也包含图像的DSM对：DFC2018数据集和包含卢森堡国家激光雷达飞行的数据集。根据视觉检查，推断的超分辨率图像表现出特别优越的质量。特别是，高分辨率DFC2018数据集的结果是现实的，几乎与地面真相图像没有区别。

Single-image super-resolution (SISR) networks trained with perceptual and adversarial losses provide high-contrast outputs compared to those of networks trained with distortion-oriented losses, such as L1 or L2. However, it has been shown that using a single perceptual loss is insufficient for accurately restoring locally varying diverse shapes in images, often generating undesirable artifacts or unnatural details. For this reason, combinations of various losses, such as perceptual, adversarial, and distortion losses, have been attempted, yet it remains challenging to find optimal combinations. Hence, in this paper, we propose a new SISR framework that applies optimal objectives for each region to generate plausible results in overall areas of high-resolution outputs. Specifically, the framework comprises two models: a predictive model that infers an optimal objective map for a given low-resolution (LR) input and a generative model that applies a target objective map to produce the corresponding SR output. The generative model is trained over our proposed objective trajectory representing a set of essential objectives, which enables the single network to learn various SR results corresponding to combined losses on the trajectory. The predictive model is trained using pairs of LR images and corresponding optimal objective maps searched from the objective trajectory. Experimental results on five benchmarks show that the proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art perception-driven SR methods in LPIPS, DISTS, PSNR, and SSIM metrics. The visual results also demonstrate the superiority of our method in perception-oriented reconstruction. The code and models are available at https://github.com/seungho-snu/SROOE.

盲目图像超分辨率（SR）是CV的长期任务，旨在恢复患有未知和复杂扭曲的低分辨率图像。最近的工作主要集中在采用更复杂的退化模型来模拟真实世界的降级。由此产生的模型在感知损失和产量感知令人信服的结果取得了突破性。然而，电流生成的对抗性网络结构所带来的限制仍然是显着的：处理像素同样地导致图像的结构特征的无知，并且导致性能缺点，例如扭曲线和背景过度锐化或模糊。在本文中，我们提出了A-ESRAN，用于盲人SR任务的GAN模型，其特色是基于U-NET的U-NET的多尺度鉴别器，可以与其他发电机无缝集成。据我们所知，这是第一项介绍U-Net结构作为GaN解决盲人问题的鉴别者的工作。本文还给出了对模型的多规模注意力突破的机制的解释。通过对现有作品的比较实验，我们的模型在非参考自然图像质量评估员度量上提出了最先进的水平性能。我们的消融研究表明，利用我们的鉴别器，基于RRDB的发电机可以利用多种尺度中图像的结构特征，因此与先前作品相比，更加感知地产生了感知的高分辨率图像。

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.

单像超分辨率（SISR），作为传统的不良反对问题，通过最近的卷积神经网络（CNN）的发展得到了极大的振兴。这些基于CNN的方法通常将低分辨率图像映射到其相应的高分辨率版本，具有复杂的网络结构和损耗功能，显示出令人印象深刻的性能。本文对传统的SISR算法提供了新的洞察力，并提出了一种基本上不同的方法，依赖于迭代优化。提出了一种新颖的迭代超分辨率网络（ISRN），顶部是迭代优化。我们首先分析图像SR问题的观察模型，通过以更一般和有效的方式模仿和融合每次迭代来激发可行的解决方案。考虑到批量归一化的缺点，我们提出了一种特征归一化（F-NOM，FN）方法来调节网络中的功能。此外，开发了一种具有FN的新颖块以改善作为FNB称为FNB的网络表示。剩余剩余结构被提出形成一个非常深的网络，其中FNBS与长时间跳过连接，以获得更好的信息传递和稳定训练阶段。对BICUBIC（BI）降解的测试基准的广泛实验结果表明我们的ISRN不仅可以恢复更多的结构信息，而且还可以获得竞争或更好的PSNR / SSIM结果，与其他作品相比，参数更少。除BI之外，我们除了模拟模糊（BD）和低级噪声（DN）的实际降级。 ISRN及其延伸ISRN +两者都比使用BD和DN降级模型的其他产品更好。

Face Restoration (FR) aims to restore High-Quality (HQ) faces from Low-Quality (LQ) input images, which is a domain-specific image restoration problem in the low-level computer vision area. The early face restoration methods mainly use statistic priors and degradation models, which are difficult to meet the requirements of real-world applications in practice. In recent years, face restoration has witnessed great progress after stepping into the deep learning era. However, there are few works to study deep learning-based face restoration methods systematically. Thus, this paper comprehensively surveys recent advances in deep learning techniques for face restoration. Specifically, we first summarize different problem formulations and analyze the characteristic of the face image. Second, we discuss the challenges of face restoration. Concerning these challenges, we present a comprehensive review of existing FR methods, including prior based methods and deep learning-based methods. Then, we explore developed techniques in the task of FR covering network architectures, loss functions, and benchmark datasets. We also conduct a systematic benchmark evaluation on representative methods. Finally, we discuss future directions, including network designs, metrics, benchmark datasets, applications,etc. We also provide an open-source repository for all the discussed methods, which is available at https://github.com/TaoWangzj/Awesome-Face-Restoration.

对比学习在各种高级任务中取得了显着的成功，但是为低级任务提出了较少的方法。采用VANILLA对比学习技术采用直接为低级视觉任务提出的VANILLA对比度学习技术，因为所获得的全局视觉表现不足以用于需要丰富的纹理和上下文信息的低级任务。在本文中，我们提出了一种用于单图像超分辨率（SISR）的新型对比学习框架。我们从两个视角调查基于对比的学习的SISR：样品施工和特征嵌入。现有方法提出了一些天真的样本施工方法（例如，考虑到作为负样本的低质量输入以及作为正样品的地面真理），并且它们采用了先前的模型（例如，预先训练的VGG模型）来获得该特征嵌入而不是探索任务友好的。为此，我们向SISR提出了一个实用的对比学习框架，涉及在频率空间中产生许多信息丰富的正负样本。我们不是利用其他预先训练的网络，我们设计了一种从鉴别器网络继承的简单但有效的嵌入网络，并且可以用主SR网络迭代优化，使其成为任务最通报。最后，我们对我们的方法进行了广泛的实验评估，与基准方法相比，在目前的最先进的SISR方法中显示出高达0.21 dB的显着增益。