Presentation 2016-03-07
Image Reduction Based on waifu2x
Kohei Inoue, Kenji Hara, Kiichi Urahama,
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Abstract(in English) Recently, a high-quality image enlargement tool called waifu2x has been released and become the topic on the Internet. In this paper, we propose a method for image reduction based on waifu2x, and evauate the quality of restored images by waifu2x quantitatively. We also apply the proposed method to image sharpening-enlargement.
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Keyword(in English) waifu2x / super-resolution / image reduction / sharpening-enlargement / unsharp masking
Paper # IMQ2015-52,IE2015-151,MVE2015-79
Date of Issue 2016-02-29 (IMQ, IE, MVE)

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Committee IE / IMQ / MVE / CQ
Conference Date 2016/3/7(2days)
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Chair Seishi Takamura(NTT) / Yuukou Horita(Univ. of Toyama) / Minoru Kobayashi(Meiji Univ.) / Kyoko Yamori(Asahi Univ.)
Vice Chair Takayuki Hamamoto(Tokyo Univ. of Science) / Atsuro Ichigaya(NHK) / Kenji Sugiyama(Seikei Univ.) / Toshiya Nakaguchi(Chiba Univ.) / Yoshinari Kameda(Univ. of Tsukuba) / Takanori Hayashi(NTT) / Hideyuki Shimonishi(NEC)
Secretary Takayuki Hamamoto(NTT) / Atsuro Ichigaya(Chiba Inst. of Tech.) / Kenji Sugiyama(Canon) / Toshiya Nakaguchi(Nagoya Univ.) / Yoshinari Kameda(Keio Univ.) / Takanori Hayashi(Osaka Univ.) / Hideyuki Shimonishi(NTT)
Assistant Keita Takahashi(Nagoya Univ.) / Kei Kawamura(KDDI R&D Labs.) / Shinichiro Saito(Sony) / Masaru Tsuchida(NTT) / Reiko Ueoka(Kyushu Univ.) / Masaaki Iiyama(Kyoto Univ.) / Atsunobu Kimura(NTT) / Masahiro Yamamoto(OKI) / Bo GU(Waseda Univ.) / Hirantha Abeysekera(NTT)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Image Engineering / Technical Committee on Image Media Quality / Technical Committee on Multimedia and Virtual Environment / Technical Committee on Communication Quality
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Image Reduction Based on waifu2x
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Keyword(1) waifu2x
Keyword(2) super-resolution
Keyword(3) image reduction
Keyword(4) sharpening-enlargement
Keyword(5) unsharp masking
1st Author's Name Kohei Inoue
1st Author's Affiliation Kyushu University(Kyushu Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Kenji Hara
2nd Author's Affiliation Kyushu University(Kyushu Univ.)
3rd Author's Name Kiichi Urahama
3rd Author's Affiliation Kyushu University(Kyushu Univ.)
Date 2016-03-07
Paper # IMQ2015-52,IE2015-151,MVE2015-79
Volume (vol) vol.115
Number (no) IMQ-493,IE-494,MVE-495
Page pp.pp.135-138(IMQ), pp.135-138(IE), pp.135-138(MVE),
#Pages 4
Date of Issue 2016-02-29 (IMQ, IE, MVE)