Super-Resolution through StyleGAN Regularized Latent Search: A Realism-Fidelity Trade-off

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2311.16923v1
• Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2023 16:27:24 GMT
• Title: Super-Resolution through StyleGAN Regularized Latent Search: A Realism-Fidelity Trade-off
• Authors: Marzieh Gheisari, Auguste Genovesio
• Abstract summary: This paper addresses the problem of constructing a highly resolved (HR) image from a low resolved (LR) one. Recent unsupervised approaches search the latent space of a StyleGAN pre-trained on HR images, for the image that best downscales to the input LR image. We introduce a new regularizer to constrain the search in the latent space, ensuring that the inverted code lies in the original image manifold.
• Score: 3.212648064850423
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: This paper addresses the problem of super-resolution: constructing a highly resolved (HR) image from a low resolved (LR) one. Recent unsupervised approaches search the latent space of a StyleGAN pre-trained on HR images, for the image that best downscales to the input LR image. However, they tend to produce out-of-domain images and fail to accurately reconstruct HR images that are far from the original domain. Our contribution is twofold. Firstly, we introduce a new regularizer to constrain the search in the latent space, ensuring that the inverted code lies in the original image manifold. Secondly, we further enhanced the reconstruction through expanding the image prior around the optimal latent code. Our results show that the proposed approach recovers realistic high-quality images for large magnification factors. Furthermore, for low magnification factors, it can still reconstruct details that the generator could not have produced otherwise. Altogether, our approach achieves a good trade-off between fidelity and realism for the super-resolution task.

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