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Poster
Cross-Scale Internal Graph Neural Network for Image Super-Resolution
Shangchen Zhou · Jiawei Zhang · Wangmeng Zuo · Chen Change Loy

Tue Dec 08 09:00 AM -- 11:00 AM (PST) @ Poster Session 1 #398
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Non-local self-similarity in natural images has been well studied as an effective prior in image restoration. However, for single image super-resolution (SISR), most existing deep non-local methods (e.g., non-local neural networks) only exploit similar patches within the same scale of the low-resolution (LR) input image. Consequently, the restoration is limited to using the same-scale information while neglecting potential high-resolution (HR) cues from other scales. In this paper, we explore the cross-scale patch recurrence property of a natural image, i.e., similar patches tend to recur many times across different scales. This is achieved using a novel cross-scale internal graph neural network (IGNN). Specifically, we dynamically construct a cross-scale graph by searching k-nearest neighboring patches in the downsampled LR image for each query patch in the LR image. We then obtain the corresponding k HR neighboring patches in the LR image and aggregate them adaptively in accordance to the edge label of the constructed graph. In this way, the HR information can be passed from k HR neighboring patches to the LR query patch to help it recover more detailed textures. Besides, these internal image-specific LR/HR exemplars are also significant complements to the external information learned from the training dataset. Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of IGNN against the state-of-the-art SISR methods including existing non-local networks on standard benchmarks.

Author Information

Shangchen Zhou (Nanyang Technological University)
Jiawei Zhang (Sensetime Research)
Wangmeng Zuo (Harbin Institute of Technology)
Chen Change Loy (Nanyang Technological University)

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