Learning Hierarchical Decision Trees for Single-Image Super-Resolution

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 937-950

  Huang, Jun Jie ^a   Siu, Wan Chi ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Classification; decision tree; image processing; regression and training; single image super resolution (SR)

Indexed keywords

BINARY TREES; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DEEP LEARNING; IMAGE PROCESSING; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CLASSIFICATION PROCESS; HIERARCHICAL DECISION TREES; HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGE; IMAGE SUPER RESOLUTIONS; LEARNING-BASED METHODS; SINGLE IMAGES; SPARSE REPRESENTATION; STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODS;

DECISION TREES;

EID: 85018938048     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2015.2513661     Document Type: Article

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