Edge-directed single-image super-resolution via adaptive gradient magnitude self-interpolation

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1289-1299

  Wang, Lingfeng ^a   Xiang, Shiming ^a   Meng, Gaofeng ^a   Wu, Huaiyu ^a   Pan, Chunhong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

Author keywords

Edge directed; gradient magnitude transformation; super resolution

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION SYSTEM; EDGE-DIRECTED; GRADIENT MAGNITUDE; HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGE; LOW RESOLUTION IMAGES; SUPER RESOLUTION; SUPER RESOLUTION ALGORITHMS; SUPERRESOLUTION METHODS;

COMPUTER VISION;

OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER;

EID: 84881450346     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2013.2240915     Document Type: Article

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