Title
Super-Resolution of Remote Sensing Images via a Dense Residual Generative Adversarial Network
Abstract
Single image super-resolution (SISR) has been widely studied in recent years as a crucial technique for remote sensing applications. In this paper, a dense residual generative adversarial network (DRGAN)-based SISR method is proposed to promote the resolution of remote sensing images. Different from previous super-resolution (SR) approaches based on generative adversarial networks (GANs), the novelty of our method mainly lies in the following factors. First, we made a breakthrough in terms of network architecture to improve performance. We designed a dense residual network as the generative network in GAN, which can make full use of the hierarchical features from low-resolution (LR) images. We also introduced a contiguous memory mechanism into the network to take advantage of the dense residual block. Second, we modified the loss function and altered the model of the discriminative network according to the Wasserstein GAN with a gradient penalty (WGAN-GP) for stable training. Extensive experiments were performed using the NWPU-RESISC45 dataset, and the results demonstrated that the proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art methods in terms of both objective evaluation and subjective perspective.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.3390/rs11212578
REMOTE SENSING
Keywords
DocType
Volume
single image super-resolution (SISR),remote sensing images,generative adversarial network (GAN),dense residual network (DRN),Wasserstein GAN with gradient penalty (WGAN-GP)
Journal
11
Issue
Citations 
PageRank 
21
1
0.35
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wen Ma110.35
Zongxu Pan2748.13
Yuan Feng3175.55
Bin Lei4114.73