SRTransGAN: Image Super-Resolution using Transformer based Generative Adversarial Network

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2312.01999v1
• Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2023 16:22:39 GMT
• Title: SRTransGAN: Image Super-Resolution using Transformer based Generative Adversarial Network
• Authors: Neeraj Baghel, Shiv Ram Dubey, Satish Kumar Singh
• Abstract summary: We propose a transformer-based encoder-decoder network as a generator to generate 2x images and 4x images. The proposed SRTransGAN outperforms the existing methods by 4.38 % on an average of PSNR and SSIM scores.
• Score: 16.243363392717434
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Image super-resolution aims to synthesize high-resolution image from a low-resolution image. It is an active area to overcome the resolution limitations in several applications like low-resolution object-recognition, medical image enhancement, etc. The generative adversarial network (GAN) based methods have been the state-of-the-art for image super-resolution by utilizing the convolutional neural networks (CNNs) based generator and discriminator networks. However, the CNNs are not able to exploit the global information very effectively in contrast to the transformers, which are the recent breakthrough in deep learning by exploiting the self-attention mechanism. Motivated from the success of transformers in language and vision applications, we propose a SRTransGAN for image super-resolution using transformer based GAN. Specifically, we propose a novel transformer-based encoder-decoder network as a generator to generate 2x images and 4x images. We design the discriminator network using vision transformer which uses the image as sequence of patches and hence useful for binary classification between synthesized and real high-resolution images. The proposed SRTransGAN outperforms the existing methods by 4.38 % on an average of PSNR and SSIM scores. We also analyze the saliency map to understand the learning ability of the proposed method.

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