Journey Towards Tiny Perceptual Super-Resolution

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2007.04356v1
• Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2020 18:24:40 GMT
• Title: Journey Towards Tiny Perceptual Super-Resolution
• Authors: Royson Lee, {\L}ukasz Dudziak, Mohamed Abdelfattah, Stylianos I. Venieris, Hyeji Kim, Hongkai Wen, Nicholas D. Lane
• Abstract summary: We propose a neural architecture search (NAS) approach that integrates NAS and generative adversarial networks (GANs) with recent advances in perceptual SR. Our tiny perceptual SR (TPSR) models outperform SRGAN and EnhanceNet on both full-reference perceptual metric (LPIPS) and distortion metric (PSNR)
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Recent works in single-image perceptual super-resolution (SR) have demonstrated unprecedented performance in generating realistic textures by means of deep convolutional networks. However, these convolutional models are excessively large and expensive, hindering their effective deployment to end devices. In this work, we propose a neural architecture search (NAS) approach that integrates NAS and generative adversarial networks (GANs) with recent advances in perceptual SR and pushes the efficiency of small perceptual SR models to facilitate on-device execution. Specifically, we search over the architectures of both the generator and the discriminator sequentially, highlighting the unique challenges and key observations of searching for an SR-optimized discriminator and comparing them with existing discriminator architectures in the literature. Our tiny perceptual SR (TPSR) models outperform SRGAN and EnhanceNet on both full-reference perceptual metric (LPIPS) and distortion metric (PSNR) while being up to 26.4$\times$ more memory efficient and 33.6$\times$ more compute efficient respectively.

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