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Two Heads Better than One: Dual Degradation Representation for Blind Super-Resolution
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  • Hsuan Yuan,
  • Shao-Yu Weng,
  • I-Hsuan Lo,
  • Wei-Chen Chiu,
  • Yu-Syuan Xu,
  • Hao-Chien Hsueh,
  • Jen-Hui Chuang,
  • Ching-Chun Huang
Hsuan Yuan
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Shao-Yu Weng
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
I-Hsuan Lo
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

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Wei-Chen Chiu
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Yu-Syuan Xu
MediaTek Inc
Hao-Chien Hsueh
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Jen-Hui Chuang
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Ching-Chun Huang
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

Abstract

Previous methods have demonstrated remarkable performance in single image super-resolution (SISR) tasks with known and fixed degradation (e.g., bicubic downsampling). However, when the actual degradation deviates from these assumptions, these methods may experience significant declines in performance. In this paper, we propose a Dual Branch Degradation Extractor Network to address the blind SR problem. While some BlindSR methods assume noisefree degradation and others do not explicitly consider the presence of noise in the degradation model, our approach predicts two unsupervised degradation embeddings that represent blurry and noisy information, respectively. The SR network can then be adapted to blur embedding and noise embedding in distinct ways. Furthermore, we treat the degradation extractor as a regularizer to capitalize on the differences between SR and HR images. Extensive experiments on several benchmarks demonstrate that our method achieves SOTA performance in the blind SR problem.
30 Jan 2024Submitted to TechRxiv
06 Feb 2024Published in TechRxiv