Text-image super-resolution through anchored neighborhood regression with multiple class-specific dictionaries

Signal, Image and Video Processing

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 275-282

  Abedi, Ali ^a   Kabir, Ehsanollah ^a  

^a TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Anchored neighborhood regression; Class specific dictionaries; Learning based super resolution; Text image super resolution

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ANCHORED NEIGHBORHOOD REGRESSION; CHARACTER CLASSIFICATION; CLASS-SPECIFIC DICTIONARIES; CLASSIFICATION RESULTS; HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGE; IMAGE SUPER RESOLUTIONS; LEARNING-BASED SUPER-RESOLUTION; TEXT IMAGES;

TEXT PROCESSING;

EID: 84979517435     PISSN: 18631703     EISSN: 18631711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11760-016-0933-2     Document Type: Article

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