CLIP-SR: Collaborative Linguistic and Image Processing for Super-Resolution

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2412.11609v3
• Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2025 08:35:10 GMT
• Title: CLIP-SR: Collaborative Linguistic and Image Processing for Super-Resolution
• Authors: Bingwen Hu, Heng Liu, Zhedong Zheng, Ping Liu,
• Abstract summary: Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have significantly advanced Image Super-Resolution (SR)<n>Most CNN-based methods rely solely on pixel-based transformations, leading to artifacts and blurring.<n>We propose a multi-modal semantic enhancement framework that integrates textual semantics with visual features.
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• Abstract: Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have significantly advanced Image Super-Resolution (SR), yet most CNN-based methods rely solely on pixel-based transformations, often leading to artifacts and blurring, particularly under severe downsampling rates (\eg, 8$\times$ or 16$\times$). The recently developed text-guided SR approaches leverage textual descriptions to enhance their detail restoration capabilities but frequently struggle with effectively performing alignment, resulting in semantic inconsistencies. To address these challenges, we propose a multi-modal semantic enhancement framework that integrates textual semantics with visual features, effectively mitigating semantic mismatches and detail losses in highly degraded low-resolution (LR) images. Our method enables realistic, high-quality SR to be performed at large upscaling factors, with a maximum scaling ratio of 16$\times$. The framework integrates both text and image inputs using the prompt predictor, the Text-Image Fusion Block (TIFBlock), and the Iterative Refinement Module, leveraging Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) features to guide a progressive enhancement process with fine-grained alignment. This synergy produces high-resolution outputs with sharp textures and strong semantic coherence, even at substantial scaling factors. Extensive comparative experiments and ablation studies validate the effectiveness of our approach. Furthermore, by leveraging textual semantics, our method offers a degree of super-resolution editability, allowing for controlled enhancements while preserving semantic consistency. The code is available at https://github.com/hengliusky/CLIP-SR.

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