Presentation 2005/6/16
Super-resolution with Smooth-Gap Prior
Atsunori KANEMURA, Shinichi MAEDA, Shin ISHII,
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Abstract(in English) When extracting a single high resolution image from a set of low resolution images, maximum a posteiori estimators have been recongnized to be effective because they resolve the ill-posed nature of this inverse problem. A Bayesian approach which marginalizes over the high resolution image and then estimates the degrading process has also been established recently. However, the formerly used prior distribution was a simple Gaussian distribution, which prefers blurred high resolution images. In this study we use a smooth-gap prior which describes inherent properties of images more faithfully in order to estimate both the degrading process and the high resolution image. The smooth-gap prior is a complicated Gaussian distribution but allows estimated images to be sharp. Under the non-blind condition (in which we know the degrading process) the smooth-gap prior worked effectively to make estimated high resolution images sharp. Under the blind condition (in which we do not know the degrading process) the smooth-gap prior was comparable to the simple Gaussian prior in the estimation of the degrading process whereas superior to the Gaussian in respect of the sharpness of the image.
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Keyword(in English) Super-resolution / blind deconvolution / Bayesian inference / image processing / prior distribution
Paper # NC2005-13
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Conference Date 2005/6/16(1days)
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Title (in English) Super-resolution with Smooth-Gap Prior
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Keyword(1) Super-resolution
Keyword(2) blind deconvolution
Keyword(3) Bayesian inference
Keyword(4) image processing
Keyword(5) prior distribution
1st Author's Name Atsunori KANEMURA
1st Author's Affiliation Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology()
2nd Author's Name Shinichi MAEDA
2nd Author's Affiliation Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
3rd Author's Name Shin ISHII
3rd Author's Affiliation Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Date 2005/6/16
Paper # NC2005-13
Volume (vol) vol.105
Number (no) 130
Page pp.pp.-
#Pages 6
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