FaithIR: Rethinking Infrared Image Super-Resolution from Perceptual Sharpness to Task Relevant Fidelity

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.03106v1
• Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2026 04:23:30 GMT
• Title: FaithIR: Rethinking Infrared Image Super-Resolution from Perceptual Sharpness to Task Relevant Fidelity
• Abstract summary: FaithIR is a faithful infrared super-resolution framework for reliable machine perception.<n>Experiments on FLIR-IISR, M3FD, and FMB demonstrate strong reconstruction fidelity, cross-dataset generalization, and superior performance in object detection and semantic segmentation.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Infrared image super-resolution (IISR) is important for downstream tasks such as object detection and semantic segmentation. Existing IISR methods often produce artificial textures, over-sharpened edges, and spurious high-frequency details that distort authentic thermal structures and semantic information. To address this issue, we propose FaithIR, a faithful infrared super-resolution framework for reliable machine perception. FaithIR consists of a patch-level conditioning branch that captures global thermal and structural information and a pixel-level restoration branch that performs dense local reconstruction under structural guidance. The entire restoration process is performed directly in the pixel domain to preserve infrared-specific structures and task-relevant information. Extensive experiments on FLIR-IISR, M3FD, and FMB demonstrate strong reconstruction fidelity, cross-dataset generalization, and superior performance in object detection and semantic segmentation. These results show that demonstrate that preserving faithful infrared structure preservations is more important for reliable machine perception than merely pursuing perceptual sharpness alone.

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