Title
Generalizing the Nonlocal-means to super-resolution reconstruction
Abstract
Super-resolution reconstruction proposes a fusion of several low-quality images into one higher quality result with better optical resolution. Classic super-resolution techniques strongly rely on the availability of accurate motion estimation for this fusion task. When the motion is estimated inaccurately, as often happens for nonglobal motion fields, annoying artifacts appear in the super-resolved outcome. Encouraged by recent developments on the video denoising problem, where state-of-the-art algorithms are formed with no explicit motion estimation, we seek a super-resolution algorithm of similar nature that will allow processing sequences with general motion patterns. In this paper, we base our solution on the Nonlocal-Means (NLM) algorithm. We show how this denoising method is generalized to become a relatively simple super-resolution algorithm with no explicit motion estimation. Results on several test movies show that the proposed method is very successful in providing super-resolution on general sequences.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/TIP.2008.2008067
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
explicit motion estimation,accurate motion estimation,general motion pattern,nonglobal motion field,classic super-resolution technique,simple super-resolution algorithm,super-resolution algorithm,state-of-the-art algorithm,denoising method,fusion task
Noise reduction,Iterative reconstruction,Computer vision,Quarter-pixel motion,Image processing,Sensor fusion,Artificial intelligence,Motion estimation,Image resolution,Video denoising,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
18
1
1057-7149
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
31
1.37
28
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Matan Protter1311.37
Michael Elad211274854.93
Hiroyuki Takeda32268.63
Peyman Milanfar470052.20