SSL: A Self-similarity Loss for Improving Generative Image Super-resolution

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2408.05713v2
• Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2024 02:33:43 GMT
• Title: SSL: A Self-similarity Loss for Improving Generative Image Super-resolution
• Authors: Du Chen, Zhengqiang Zhang, Jie Liang, Lei Zhang,
• Abstract summary: Generative adversarial networks (GAN) and generative diffusion models (DM) have been widely used in real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR) These generative models are prone to generating visual artifacts and false image structures, resulting in unnatural Real-ISR results. We propose a simple yet effective self-similarity loss (SSL) to improve the performance of generative Real-ISR models.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Generative adversarial networks (GAN) and generative diffusion models (DM) have been widely used in real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR) to enhance the image perceptual quality. However, these generative models are prone to generating visual artifacts and false image structures, resulting in unnatural Real-ISR results. Based on the fact that natural images exhibit high self-similarities, i.e., a local patch can have many similar patches to it in the whole image, in this work we propose a simple yet effective self-similarity loss (SSL) to improve the performance of generative Real-ISR models, enhancing the hallucination of structural and textural details while reducing the unpleasant visual artifacts. Specifically, we compute a self-similarity graph (SSG) of the ground-truth image, and enforce the SSG of Real-ISR output to be close to it. To reduce the training cost and focus on edge areas, we generate an edge mask from the ground-truth image, and compute the SSG only on the masked pixels. The proposed SSL serves as a general plug-and-play penalty, which could be easily applied to the off-the-shelf Real-ISR models. Our experiments demonstrate that, by coupling with SSL, the performance of many state-of-the-art Real-ISR models, including those GAN and DM based ones, can be largely improved, reproducing more perceptually realistic image details and eliminating many false reconstructions and visual artifacts. Codes and supplementary material can be found at https://github.com/ChrisDud0257/SSL

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