NTIRE 2017 Challenge on Single Image Super-Resolution: Dataset and Study

IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops

Volumn 2017-July, Issue , 2017, Pages 1122-1131

  Agustsson, Eirikur ^a   Timofte, Radu ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER;

EXAMPLE BASED; LARGE DATASET; RESOLUTION IMAGES; SINGLE IMAGES; STATE OF THE ART;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 85030245132     PISSN: 21607508     EISSN: 21607516     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CVPRW.2017.150     Document Type: Conference Paper

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