A rapid and accurate infrared image super-resolution method based on zoom mechanism

摘要

Highlights?An effective infrared image super resolution method is proposed.?We design a novel network architecture and introduce the zoom mechanism.?The proposed method owns a rapid running speed and can process videos in real-time.?We apply the method from natural images to infrared images by transfer learning.AbstractIn view that the existing methods for infrared image super-resolution could not have good performance both in speed and accuracy simultaneously, with the advantage of deep learning method, this paper presents a rapid and accurate infrared image super-resolution method based on zoom mechanism. In the meantime, we design a novel network architecture. First, we take low-resolution images as network inputs directly, and employ a convolution layer to extract and represent features. Then we introduce the combination of a deconvolution layer and a pooling layer into the network, what we name as zoom mechan