Sewer Image Super-Resolution with Depth Priors and Its Lightweight Network

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2407.19271v2
• Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2024 06:34:00 GMT
• Title: Sewer Image Super-Resolution with Depth Priors and Its Lightweight Network
• Authors: Gang Pan, Chen Wang, Zhijie Sui, Shuai Guo, Yaozhi Lv, Honglie Li, Di Sun, Zixia Xia,
• Abstract summary: Quick-view (QV) technique serves as a primary method for detecting defects within sewerage systems. Super-resolution is an effective way to improve image quality and has been applied in a variety of scenes. This study introduces a novel Depth-guided, Reference-based Super-Resolution framework denoted as DSRNet.
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• Abstract: The Quick-view (QV) technique serves as a primary method for detecting defects within sewerage systems. However, the effectiveness of QV is impeded by the limited visual range of its hardware, resulting in suboptimal image quality for distant portions of the sewer network. Image super-resolution is an effective way to improve image quality and has been applied in a variety of scenes. However, research on super-resolution for sewer images remains considerably unexplored. In response, this study leverages the inherent depth relationships present within QV images and introduces a novel Depth-guided, Reference-based Super-Resolution framework denoted as DSRNet. It comprises two core components: a depth extraction module and a depth information matching module (DMM). DSRNet utilizes the adjacent frames of the low-resolution image as reference images and helps them recover texture information based on the correlation. By combining these modules, the integration of depth priors significantly enhances both visual quality and performance benchmarks. Besides, in pursuit of computational efficiency and compactness, a super-resolution knowledge distillation model based on an attention mechanism is introduced. This mechanism facilitates the acquisition of feature similarity between a more complex teacher model and a streamlined student model, with the latter being a lightweight version of DSRNet. Experimental results demonstrate that DSRNet significantly improves PSNR and SSIM compared with other methods. This study also conducts experiments on sewer defect semantic segmentation, object detection, and classification on the Pipe dataset and Sewer-ML dataset. Experiments show that the method can improve the performance of low-resolution sewer images in these tasks.

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