Implicit Grid Convolution for Multi-Scale Image Super-Resolution

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2408.09674v1
• Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2024 03:30:15 GMT
• Title: Implicit Grid Convolution for Multi-Scale Image Super-Resolution
• Authors: Dongheon Lee, Seokju Yun, Youngmin Ro,
• Abstract summary: We propose a framework for training multiple integer scales simultaneously with a single model. We use a single encoder to extract features and introduce a novel upsampler, Implicit Grid Convolution(IGConv) Our experiments demonstrate that training multiple scales with a single model reduces the training budget and stored parameters by one-third.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Recently, Super-Resolution (SR) achieved significant performance improvement by employing neural networks. Most SR methods conventionally train a single model for each targeted scale, which increases redundancy in training and deployment in proportion to the number of scales targeted. This paper challenges this conventional fixed-scale approach. Our preliminary analysis reveals that, surprisingly, encoders trained at different scales extract similar features from images. Furthermore, the commonly used scale-specific upsampler, Sub-Pixel Convolution (SPConv), exhibits significant inter-scale correlations. Based on these observations, we propose a framework for training multiple integer scales simultaneously with a single model. We use a single encoder to extract features and introduce a novel upsampler, Implicit Grid Convolution~(IGConv), which integrates SPConv at all scales within a single module to predict multiple scales. Our extensive experiments demonstrate that training multiple scales with a single model reduces the training budget and stored parameters by one-third while achieving equivalent inference latency and comparable performance. Furthermore, we propose IGConv$^{+}$, which addresses spectral bias and input-independent upsampling and uses ensemble prediction to improve performance. As a result, SRFormer-IGConv$^{+}$ achieves a remarkable 0.25dB improvement in PSNR at Urban100$\times$4 while reducing the training budget, stored parameters, and inference cost compared to the existing SRFormer.

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