SRDiff: Single Image Super-Resolution with Diffusion Probabilistic Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2104.14951v1
• Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2021 12:31:25 GMT
• Title: SRDiff: Single Image Super-Resolution with Diffusion Probabilistic Models
• Authors: Haoying Li, Yifan Yang, Meng Chang, Huajun Feng, Zhihai Xu, Qi Li, Yueting Chen
• Abstract summary: Single image super-resolution (SISR) aims to reconstruct high-resolution (HR) images from the given low-resolution (LR) ones. We propose a novel single image super-resolution diffusion probabilistic model (SRDiff) SRDiff is optimized with a variant of the variational bound on the data likelihood and can provide diverse and realistic SR predictions.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Single image super-resolution (SISR) aims to reconstruct high-resolution (HR) images from the given low-resolution (LR) ones, which is an ill-posed problem because one LR image corresponds to multiple HR images. Recently, learning-based SISR methods have greatly outperformed traditional ones, while suffering from over-smoothing, mode collapse or large model footprint issues for PSNR-oriented, GAN-driven and flow-based methods respectively. To solve these problems, we propose a novel single image super-resolution diffusion probabilistic model (SRDiff), which is the first diffusion-based model for SISR. SRDiff is optimized with a variant of the variational bound on the data likelihood and can provide diverse and realistic SR predictions by gradually transforming the Gaussian noise into a super-resolution (SR) image conditioned on an LR input through a Markov chain. In addition, we introduce residual prediction to the whole framework to speed up convergence. Our extensive experiments on facial and general benchmarks (CelebA and DIV2K datasets) show that 1) SRDiff can generate diverse SR results in rich details with state-of-the-art performance, given only one LR input; 2) SRDiff is easy to train with a small footprint; and 3) SRDiff can perform flexible image manipulation including latent space interpolation and content fusion.

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