Single Textual Image Super-Resolution Using Multiple Learned Dictionaries Based Sparse Coding
Résumé
In this paper, we propose a new approach based on sparse coding for
single textual image Super-Resolution. The proposed approach is able to build
more representative dictionaries learned from a large training Low-
Resolution/High-Resolution (LR/HR) patch pair database. In fact, an intelligent
clustering is employed to partition such database into several clusters from
which multiple coupled LR/HR dictionaries are constructed. Based on the as-
sumption that patches of the same cluster live in the same subspace, we exploit
for each local LR patch its similarity to clusters in order to adaptively select the
appropriate learned dictionary over that such patch can be well sparsely
represented. The obtained sparse representation is hence applied to generate a
local HR patch from the corresponding HR dictionary. Experiments on textual
images show that the proposed approach outperforms its counterparts in visual
fidelity as well as in numerical measures.