Friday, February 15, 2013

Signal Processing: Image Communication 2013

Patch-based spatio-temporal super-resolution for video with non-rigid motion


Jordi Salvador (Technicolor)
Axel Kochale (Technicolor)
Siegfried Schweidler (Technicolor)

Elsevier Signal Processing: Image Communication, 2013


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Abstract

This article presents a novel approach for spatio-temporal video super-resolution. Whereas the task of synthesizing high-frequency information on the spatial domain can be accomplished without introducing arbitrary priors on the image model (beyond the assumption of local cross-scale self-similarity), the high degree of temporal aliasing in standard-framerate video requires applying motion compensation in order to correctly interpolate the video sequence along the temporal axis. As the experimental results show, the proposed technique is capable of augmenting both the frame-rate of a video sequence (by any real up-converting factor) and its effective spatial resolution (by any rational magnification factor). The presented method is suitable for parallelized computing environments, such as GPUs, and provides an output quality comparable to state-of-the-art methods in both temporal interpolation and spatial super-resolution.

BibTeX

@article{Salvador2013a,
  author = {Salvador, J. and Kochale, A. and Schweidler, S.},
  title = {Patch-based spatio-temporal super-resolution for video with non-rigid motion},
  journal = {Elsevier Signal Processing: Image Communication},
  volume = {28},
  number = {5},
  pages = {483--493},
  year = {2013},
  doi = {10.1016/j.image.2013.02.002},
}