Light Field Spatial Super-resolution via Deep Combinatorial Geometry Embedding and Structural Consistency Regularization

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2004.02215v1
• Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2020 14:39:57 GMT
• Title: Light Field Spatial Super-resolution via Deep Combinatorial Geometry Embedding and Structural Consistency Regularization
• Authors: Jing Jin and Junhui Hou and Jie Chen and Sam Kwong
• Abstract summary: Light field (LF) images acquired by hand-held devices usually suffer from low spatial resolution. The high-dimensional spatiality characteristic and complex geometrical structure of LF images make the problem more challenging than traditional single-image SR. We propose a novel learning-based LF framework, in which each view of an LF image is first individually super-resolved.
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• Abstract: Light field (LF) images acquired by hand-held devices usually suffer from low spatial resolution as the limited sampling resources have to be shared with the angular dimension. LF spatial super-resolution (SR) thus becomes an indispensable part of the LF camera processing pipeline. The high-dimensionality characteristic and complex geometrical structure of LF images make the problem more challenging than traditional single-image SR. The performance of existing methods is still limited as they fail to thoroughly explore the coherence among LF views and are insufficient in accurately preserving the parallax structure of the scene. In this paper, we propose a novel learning-based LF spatial SR framework, in which each view of an LF image is first individually super-resolved by exploring the complementary information among views with combinatorial geometry embedding. For accurate preservation of the parallax structure among the reconstructed views, a regularization network trained over a structure-aware loss function is subsequently appended to enforce correct parallax relationships over the intermediate estimation. Our proposed approach is evaluated over datasets with a large number of testing images including both synthetic and real-world scenes. Experimental results demonstrate the advantage of our approach over state-of-the-art methods, i.e., our method not only improves the average PSNR by more than 1.0 dB but also preserves more accurate parallax details, at a lower computational cost.

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