Title
Progressive representation recalibration for lightweight super-resolution
Abstract
Recently, the lightweight single-image super-resolution (SISR) task has received increasing attention due to the computational complexities and sizes of convolutional neural network (CNN)-based SISR models and the explosive demand in applications on resource-limited edge devices. Current algorithms reduce the number of layers and channels in CNNs to obtain lightweight models for this task. However, these algorithms may reduce the representation ability of the learned features due to information loss, inevitably leading to poor performance. In this work, we propose the progressive representation recalibration network (PRRN), a new lightweight SISR network to learn complete and representative feature representations. Specifically, a progressive representation recalibration block (PRRB) is developed to extract useful features from pixel and channel spaces in a two-stage approach. In the first stage, PRRB utilizes pixel and channel information to explore important feature regions. In the second stage, channel attention is further used to adjust the distribution of important feature channels. In addition, current channel attention mechanisms utilize nonlinear operations that may lead to information loss. In contrast, we design a shallow channel attention (SCA) mechanism that can learn the importance of each channel in a simpler yet more efficient way. Extensive experiments demonstrate the superiority of the proposed PRRN.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1016/j.neucom.2022.07.050
Neurocomputing
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Super-resolution,Lightweight network,Progressive representation recalibration,Channel attention
Journal
504
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0925-2312
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ruimian Wen100.34
Zhijing Yang213425.25
Tianshui Chen300.34
Hao Li400.34
Kai Li500.34