SphereSR: 360{\deg} Image Super-Resolution with Arbitrary Projection via Continuous Spherical Image Representation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2112.06536v2
• Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2021 04:40:16 GMT
• Title: SphereSR: 360{\deg} Image Super-Resolution with Arbitrary Projection via Continuous Spherical Image Representation
• Authors: Youngho Yoon, Inchul Chung, Lin Wang, and Kuk-Jin Yoon
• Abstract summary: We propose a novel framework to generate a continuous spherical image representation from an LR 360degimage. Specifically, we first propose a feature extraction module that represents the spherical data based on icosahedron. We then propose a spherical local implicit image function (SLIIF) to predict RGB values at the spherical coordinates.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: The 360{\deg}imaging has recently gained great attention; however, its angular resolution is relatively lower than that of a narrow field-of-view (FOV) perspective image as it is captured by using fisheye lenses with the same sensor size. Therefore, it is beneficial to super-resolve a 360{\deg}image. Some attempts have been made but mostly considered the equirectangular projection (ERP) as one of the way for 360{\deg}image representation despite of latitude-dependent distortions. In that case, as the output high-resolution(HR) image is always in the same ERP format as the low-resolution (LR) input, another information loss may occur when transforming the HR image to other projection types. In this paper, we propose SphereSR, a novel framework to generate a continuous spherical image representation from an LR 360{\deg}image, aiming at predicting the RGB values at given spherical coordinates for super-resolution with an arbitrary 360{\deg}image projection. Specifically, we first propose a feature extraction module that represents the spherical data based on icosahedron and efficiently extracts features on the spherical surface. We then propose a spherical local implicit image function (SLIIF) to predict RGB values at the spherical coordinates. As such, SphereSR flexibly reconstructs an HR image under an arbitrary projection type. Experiments on various benchmark datasets show that our method significantly surpasses existing methods.

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