Review of Image Super-resolution Reconstruction Algorithms Based on Deep Learning

Abstract

The essence of image super-resolution reconstruction technology is to break through the limitation of hardware conditions, and reconstruct a high-resolution image from a low-resolution image which contains less infor-mation through the image super-resolution reconstruction algorithms. With the development of the technology on deep learning, deep learning has been introduced into the image super-resolution reconstruction field. This paper summarizes the image super-resolution reconstruction algorithms based on deep learning, classifies, analyzes and compares the typical algorithms. Firstly, the model framework, upsampling method, nonlinear mapping learning module and loss function of single image super-resolution reconstruction method are introduced in detail. Secondly, the reference-based super-resolution reconstruction method is analyzed from two aspects: pixel alignment and Patch matching. Then, the benchmark datasets and image quality evaluation indices used for image super-resolution recon-struction algorithms are summarized, the characteristics and performance of the typical super-resolution recons-truction algorithms are compared and analyzed. Finally, the future research trend on the image super-resolution reconstruction algorithms based on deep learning is prospected.

Keywords

• |super-resolution reconstruction|deep learning|single image|reference-based|image alignment