基于变压器的方法与基于CNN的方法相比，由于其对远程依赖性的模型，因此获得了令人印象深刻的图像恢复性能。但是，像Swinir这样的进步采用了基于窗口的和本地注意力的策略来平衡性能和计算开销，这限制了采用大型接收领域来捕获全球信息并在早期层中建立长期依赖性。为了进一步提高捕获全球信息的效率，在这项工作中，我们建议Swinfir通过更换具有整个图像范围的接收场的快速傅立叶卷积（FFC）组件来扩展Swinir。我们还重新访问其他先进技术，即数据增强，预训练和功能集合，以改善图像重建的效果。并且我们的功能合奏方法使模型的性能得以大大增强，而无需增加训练和测试时间。与现有方法相比，我们将算法应用于多个流行的大规模基准，并实现了最先进的性能。例如，我们的Swinfir在漫画109数据集上达到了32.83 dB的PSNR，该PSNR比最先进的Swinir方法高0.8 dB。

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。

Image restoration is a long-standing low-level vision problem that aims to restore high-quality images from lowquality images (e.g., downscaled, noisy and compressed images). While state-of-the-art image restoration methods are based on convolutional neural networks, few attempts have been made with Transformers which show impressive performance on high-level vision tasks. In this paper, we propose a strong baseline model SwinIR for image restoration based on the Swin Transformer. SwinIR consists of three parts: shallow feature extraction, deep feature extraction and high-quality image reconstruction. In particular, the deep feature extraction module is composed of several residual Swin Transformer blocks (RSTB), each of which has several Swin Transformer layers together with a residual connection. We conduct experiments on three representative tasks: image super-resolution (including classical, lightweight and real-world image super-resolution), image denoising (including grayscale and color image denoising) and JPEG compression artifact reduction. Experimental results demonstrate that SwinIR outperforms state-of-the-art methods on different tasks by up to 0.14∼0.45dB, while the total number of parameters can be reduced by up to 67%.

卷积神经网络在过去十年中允许在单个图像超分辨率（SISR）中的显着进展。在SISR最近的进展中，关注机制对于高性能SR模型至关重要。但是，注意机制仍然不清楚为什么它在SISR中的工作原理。在这项工作中，我们试图量化和可视化SISR中的注意力机制，并表明并非所有关注模块都同样有益。然后，我们提出了关注网络（A $ ^ 2 $ n）的注意力，以获得更高效和准确的SISR。具体来说，$ ^ 2 $ n包括非关注分支和耦合注意力分支。提出了一种动态注意力模块，为这两个分支产生权重，以动态地抑制不需要的注意力调整，其中权重根据输入特征自适应地改变。这允许注意模块专门从事惩罚的有益实例，从而大大提高了注意力网络的能力，即几个参数开销。实验结果表明，我们的最终模型A $ ^ 2 $ n可以实现与类似尺寸的最先进网络相比的卓越的权衡性能。代码可以在https://github.com/haoyuc/a2n获得。

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。

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。

本文回顾了AIM 2022上压缩图像和视频超级分辨率的挑战。这项挑战包括两条曲目。轨道1的目标是压缩图像的超分辨率，轨迹〜2靶向压缩视频的超分辨率。在轨道1中，我们使用流行的数据集DIV2K作为培训，验证和测试集。在轨道2中，我们提出了LDV 3.0数据集，其中包含365个视频，包括LDV 2.0数据集（335个视频）和30个其他视频。在这一挑战中，有12支球队和2支球队分别提交了赛道1和赛道2的最终结果。所提出的方法和解决方案衡量了压缩图像和视频上超分辨率的最先进。提出的LDV 3.0数据集可在https://github.com/renyang-home/ldv_dataset上找到。此挑战的首页是在https://github.com/renyang-home/aim22_compresssr。

Recently, Transformer-based image restoration networks have achieved promising improvements over convolutional neural networks due to parameter-independent global interactions. To lower computational cost, existing works generally limit self-attention computation within non-overlapping windows. However, each group of tokens are always from a dense area of the image. This is considered as a dense attention strategy since the interactions of tokens are restrained in dense regions. Obviously, this strategy could result in restricted receptive fields. To address this issue, we propose Attention Retractable Transformer (ART) for image restoration, which presents both dense and sparse attention modules in the network. The sparse attention module allows tokens from sparse areas to interact and thus provides a wider receptive field. Furthermore, the alternating application of dense and sparse attention modules greatly enhances representation ability of Transformer while providing retractable attention on the input image.We conduct extensive experiments on image super-resolution, denoising, and JPEG compression artifact reduction tasks. Experimental results validate that our proposed ART outperforms state-of-the-art methods on various benchmark datasets both quantitatively and visually. We also provide code and models at the website https://github.com/gladzhang/ART.

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.

Image super-resolution (SR) serves as a fundamental tool for the processing and transmission of multimedia data. Recently, Transformer-based models have achieved competitive performances in image SR. They divide images into fixed-size patches and apply self-attention on these patches to model long-range dependencies among pixels. However, this architecture design is originated for high-level vision tasks, which lacks design guideline from SR knowledge. In this paper, we aim to design a new attention block whose insights are from the interpretation of Local Attribution Map (LAM) for SR networks. Specifically, LAM presents a hierarchical importance map where the most important pixels are located in a fine area of a patch and some less important pixels are spread in a coarse area of the whole image. To access pixels in the coarse area, instead of using a very large patch size, we propose a lightweight Global Pixel Access (GPA) module that applies cross-attention with the most similar patch in an image. In the fine area, we use an Intra-Patch Self-Attention (IPSA) module to model long-range pixel dependencies in a local patch, and then a $3\times3$ convolution is applied to process the finest details. In addition, a Cascaded Patch Division (CPD) strategy is proposed to enhance perceptual quality of recovered images. Extensive experiments suggest that our method outperforms state-of-the-art lightweight SR methods by a large margin. Code is available at https://github.com/passerer/HPINet.

Recent research on super-resolution has progressed with the development of deep convolutional neural networks (DCNN). In particular, residual learning techniques exhibit improved performance. In this paper, we develop an enhanced deep super-resolution network (EDSR) with performance exceeding those of current state-of-the-art SR methods. The significant performance improvement of our model is due to optimization by removing unnecessary modules in conventional residual networks. The performance is further improved by expanding the model size while we stabilize the training procedure. We also propose a new multi-scale deep super-resolution system (MDSR) and training method, which can reconstruct high-resolution images of different upscaling factors in a single model. The proposed methods show superior performance over the state-of-the-art methods on benchmark datasets and prove its excellence by winning the NTIRE2017 Super-Resolution Challenge [26].

现实世界图像Denoising是一个实用的图像恢复问题，旨在从野外嘈杂的输入中获取干净的图像。最近，Vision Transformer（VIT）表现出强大的捕获远程依赖性的能力，许多研究人员试图将VIT应用于图像DeNosing任务。但是，现实世界的图像是一个孤立的框架，它使VIT构建了内部贴片的远程依赖性，该依赖性将图像分为贴片并混乱噪声模式和梯度连续性。在本文中，我们建议通过使用连续的小波滑动转换器来解决此问题，该小波滑动转换器在现实世界中构建频率对应关系，称为dnswin。具体而言，我们首先使用CNN编码器从嘈杂的输入图像中提取底部功能。 DNSWIN的关键是将高频和低频信息与功能和构建频率依赖性分开。为此，我们提出了小波滑动窗口变压器，该变压器利用离散的小波变换，自我注意力和逆离散小波变换来提取深度特征。最后，我们使用CNN解码器将深度特征重建为DeNo的图像。对现实世界的基准测试的定量和定性评估都表明，拟议的DNSWIN对最新方法的表现良好。

Recently, great progress has been made in single-image super-resolution (SISR) based on deep learning technology. However, the existing methods usually require a large computational cost. Meanwhile, the activation function will cause some features of the intermediate layer to be lost. Therefore, it is a challenge to make the model lightweight while reducing the impact of intermediate feature loss on the reconstruction quality. In this paper, we propose a Feature Interaction Weighted Hybrid Network (FIWHN) to alleviate the above problem. Specifically, FIWHN consists of a series of novel Wide-residual Distillation Interaction Blocks (WDIB) as the backbone, where every third WDIBs form a Feature shuffle Weighted Group (FSWG) by mutual information mixing and fusion. In addition, to mitigate the adverse effects of intermediate feature loss on the reconstruction results, we introduced a well-designed Wide Convolutional Residual Weighting (WCRW) and Wide Identical Residual Weighting (WIRW) units in WDIB, and effectively cross-fused features of different finenesses through a Wide-residual Distillation Connection (WRDC) framework and a Self-Calibrating Fusion (SCF) unit. Finally, to complement the global features lacking in the CNN model, we introduced the Transformer into our model and explored a new way of combining the CNN and Transformer. Extensive quantitative and qualitative experiments on low-level and high-level tasks show that our proposed FIWHN can achieve a good balance between performance and efficiency, and is more conducive to downstream tasks to solve problems in low-pixel scenarios.

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.

最近的作品在使用卷积神经网络（CNN）的双像素数据基于defocus Deblurring任务方面取得了出色的成果，而数据的稀缺性限制了视觉变压器在此任务中的探索和尝试。此外，现有作品还使用固定参数和网络体系结构来删除具有不同分布和内容信息的图像，这也影响了模型的概括能力。在本文中，我们提出了一个动态多尺度网络，名为DMTNET，用于双像素图像Defocus DeBlurring。 DMTNET主要包含两个模块：特征提取模块和重建模块。该特征提取模块由几个视觉变压器块组成，该模块使用其强大的特征提取能力来获得更丰富的功能并改善模型的鲁棒性。重建模块由几个动态多尺度子重构模块（DMSSRM）组成。 DMSSRM可以根据输入图像的模糊分布和内容信息自适应地分配权重来恢复图像。 DMTNET结合了变压器和CNN的优势，其中视觉变压器改善了CNN的性能上限，并且CNN的电感偏置使变压器能够在不依赖大量数据的情况下提取更强大的功能。 DMTNET可能是首次使用视觉变压器来恢复模糊图像以清晰的尝试。通过与CNN结合，视觉变压器可以在小数据集上实现更好的性能。对流行基准测试的实验结果表明，我们的DMTNET显着优于最先进的方法。

Recently, deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been widely explored in single image super-resolution (SISR) and obtained remarkable performance. However, most of the existing CNN-based SISR methods mainly focus on wider or deeper architecture design, neglecting to explore the feature correlations of intermediate layers, hence hindering the representational power of CNNs. To address this issue, in this paper, we propose a second-order attention network (SAN) for more powerful feature expression and feature correlation learning. Specifically, a novel trainable second-order channel attention (SOCA) module is developed to adaptively rescale the channel-wise features by using second-order feature statistics for more discriminative representations. Furthermore, we present a non-locally enhanced residual group (NLRG) structure, which not only incorporates non-local operations to capture long-distance spatial contextual information, but also contains repeated local-source residual attention groups (LSRAG) to learn increasingly abstract feature representations. Experimental results demonstrate the superiority of our SAN network over state-of-the-art SISR methods in terms of both quantitative metrics and visual quality.

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.

随着深度学习的发展，单图像超分辨率（SISR）取得了重大突破。最近，已经提出了基于全局特征交互的SISR网络性能的方法。但是，需要动态地忽略对上下文的响应的神经元的功能。为了解决这个问题，我们提出了一个轻巧的交叉障碍性推理网络（CFIN），这是一个由卷积神经网络（CNN）和变压器组成的混合网络。具体而言，一种新型的交叉磁场导向变压器（CFGT）旨在通过使用调制卷积内核与局部代表性语义信息结合来自适应修改网络权重。此外，提出了基于CNN的跨尺度信息聚合模块（CIAM），以使模型更好地专注于潜在的实用信息并提高变压器阶段的效率。广泛的实验表明，我们提出的CFIN是一种轻巧有效的SISR模型，可以在计算成本和模型性能之间达到良好的平衡。

Single Image Super-Resolution (SISR) tasks have achieved significant performance with deep neural networks. However, the large number of parameters in CNN-based met-hods for SISR tasks require heavy computations. Although several efficient SISR models have been recently proposed, most are handcrafted and thus lack flexibility. In this work, we propose a novel differentiable Neural Architecture Search (NAS) approach on both the cell-level and network-level to search for lightweight SISR models. Specifically, the cell-level search space is designed based on an information distillation mechanism, focusing on the combinations of lightweight operations and aiming to build a more lightweight and accurate SR structure. The network-level search space is designed to consider the feature connections among the cells and aims to find which information flow benefits the cell most to boost the performance. Unlike the existing Reinforcement Learning (RL) or Evolutionary Algorithm (EA) based NAS methods for SISR tasks, our search pipeline is fully differentiable, and the lightweight SISR models can be efficiently searched on both the cell-level and network-level jointly on a single GPU. Experiments show that our methods can achieve state-of-the-art performance on the benchmark datasets in terms of PSNR, SSIM, and model complexity with merely 68G Multi-Adds for $\times 2$ and 18G Multi-Adds for $\times 4$ SR tasks.

已经证明了深度卷积神经网络近年来对SISR有效。一方面，已经广泛使用了残余连接和密集连接，以便于前向信息和向后梯度流动以提高性能。然而，当前方法以次优的方式在大多数网络层中单独使用残留连接和密集连接。另一方面，虽然各种网络和方法旨在改善计算效率，节省参数或利用彼此的多种比例因子的训练数据来提升性能，但它可以在人力资源空间中进行超级分辨率来具有高计算成本或不能在不同尺度因子的模型之间共享参数以节省参数和推理时间。为了解决这些挑战，我们提出了一种使用双路径连接的高效单图像超分辨率网络，其多种规模学习命名为EMSRDPN。通过将双路径的双路径连接引入EMSRDPN，它在大多数网络层中以综合方式使用残差连接和密集连接。双路径连接具有重用残余连接的共同特征和探索密集连接的新功能，以了解SISR的良好代表。要利用多种比例因子的特征相关性，EMSRDPN在不同缩放因子之间共享LR空间中的所有网络单元，以学习共享功能，并且仅使用单独的重建单元进行每个比例因子，这可以利用多种规模因子的培训数据来帮助各个规模因素另外提高性能，同时可以节省参数并支持共享推理，以提高效率的多种规模因素。实验显示EMSRDPN通过SOTA方法实现更好的性能和比较或更好的参数和推理效率。