From local pixel structure to global image super-resolution: A new face hallucination framework

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 433-445

  Hu, Yu ^a,b   Lam, Kin Man ^b   Qiu, Guoping ^c   Shen, Tingzhi ^a  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Face hallucination; face super resolution (SR); neighbor embedding; pixel structure learning

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE PROCEDURE; CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; FACE DATABASE; FACE HALLUCINATION; FACE IMAGES; FACE SUPER-RESOLUTION; HIGH RESOLUTION; IMAGE SUPER-RESOLUTION; ITERATIVE PROCEDURES; NEIGHBOR EMBEDDING; PIXEL STRUCTURE; RECONSTRUCTION ERROR; STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODS; VISUAL QUALITIES;

CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; OPTICAL FLOWS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER;

PIXELS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; FACE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMETRIC IDENTIFICATION; FACE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 79551669210     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2010.2063437     Document Type: Article

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