Contrastive Learning for Blind Super-Resolution via A Distortion-Specific Network

Xinya Wang; Jiayi Ma; Junjun Jiang

doi:10.1109/JAS.2022.105914

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X. Y. Wang, J. Y. Ma, and J. J. Jiang, “Contrastive learning for blind super-resolution via a distortion-specific network,” IEEE/CAA J. Autom. Sinica, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 78–89, Jan. 2023. doi: 10.1109/JAS.2022.105914

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X. Y. Wang, J. Y. Ma, and J. J. Jiang, “Contrastive learning for blind super-resolution via a distortion-specific network,” IEEE/CAA J. Autom. Sinica, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 78–89, Jan. 2023. doi: 10.1109/JAS.2022.105914

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Contrastive Learning for Blind Super-Resolution via A Distortion-Specific Network

doi: 10.1109/JAS.2022.105914

Xinya Wang^1
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Jiayi Ma^{1
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Junjun Jiang^2
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Electronic Information School, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
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School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China

Funds: This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61971165), and the Key Research and Development Program of Hubei Province (2020BAB113)

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Xinya Wang received the B.S. degree in communication engineering from the Electronic Information School, Wuhan University in 2018. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in signal and information processing at the Multi-Spectral Vision Processing Laboratory of Wuhan University. Her current research interests include computer vision and image processing

Jiayi Ma (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.S. degree in information and computing science and the Ph.D. degree in control science and engineering from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, in 2008 and 2014, respectively. He is currently a Professor with the Electronic Information School, Wuhan University. His research interests include computer vision, machine learning, and pattern recognition. He has been identified in the 2019−2021 Highly Cited Researcher lists from the Web of Science Group. He has authored or co-authored more than 200 refereed journal and conference papers, including IEEE TPAMI/TIP, IJCV, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV. He is an Area Editor of Information Fusion, and an Editorial Board Member of Neurocomputing

Junjun Jiang (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.S. degree in mathematics from the Department of Mathematics, Huaqiao University in 2009, and the Ph.D. degree in computing science from the School of Computer, Wuhan University, in 2014. He is currently a Professor with the School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology. His research interests include image processing and computer vision. He won the Finalist of the World’s FIRST 10K Best Paper Award at ICME 2017, and the Best Student Paper Runner-up Award at MMM 2015. He received the 2016 China Computer Federation (CCF) Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award and 2015 ACM Wuhan Doctoral Dissertation Award
Corresponding author: Jiayi Ma, e-mail: jyma2010@gmail.com
Received Date: 2022-04-15
Revised Date: 2022-06-29
Accepted Date: 2022-07-14

Available Online: 2022-07-25

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Previous deep learning-based super-resolution (SR) methods rely on the assumption that the degradation process is predefined (e.g., bicubic downsampling). Thus, their performance would suffer from deterioration if the real degradation is not consistent with the assumption. To deal with real-world scenarios, existing blind SR methods are committed to estimating both the degradation and the super-resolved image with an extra loss or iterative scheme. However, degradation estimation that requires more computation would result in limited SR performance due to the accumulated estimation errors. In this paper, we propose a contrastive regularization built upon contrastive learning to exploit both the information of blurry images and clear images as negative and positive samples, respectively. Contrastive regularization ensures that the restored image is pulled closer to the clear image and pushed far away from the blurry image in the representation space. Furthermore, instead of estimating the degradation, we extract global statistical prior information to capture the character of the distortion. Considering the coupling between the degradation and the low-resolution image, we embed the global prior into the distortion-specific SR network to make our method adaptive to the changes of distortions. We term our distortion-specific network with contrastive regularization as CRDNet. The extensive experiments on synthetic and real-world scenes demonstrate that our lightweight CRDNet surpasses state-of-the-art blind super-resolution approaches.
- Blind super-resolution,
- contrastive learning,
- deep learning,
- image super-resolution (SR)

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Our novel CRDNet realizes the best parameter-performance trade-off
We propose a novel contrastive regularization without extra computation for better SR
The extracted prior capturing degradation makes our network sensitive to distortion

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