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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 09, 2024
Filed:
Jun. 21, 2019
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Wenyi Tang, Beijing, CN;
Xu Zhang, Beijing, CN;
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments described herein are generally directed to an end-to-end trainable degradation restoration network (DRN) that enhances the ability of a super-resolution (SR) subnetwork to deal with noisy low-resolution images. An embodiment of a method includes estimating, by a noise estimator (NE) subnetwork of the DRN, an estimated noise map for a noisy input image; and predicting, by the SR subnetwork of the DRN, a clean upscaled image based on the input image and the noise map by, for each of multiple conditional residual dense blocks (CRDBs) stacked within one or more cascade blocks representing the SR subnetwork, adjusting, by a noise control layer of the CRDB that follows a stacked set of a multiple residual dense blocks of the CRDB, feature values of an intermediate feature map associated with the input image by applying (i) a scaling factor and (ii) an offset factor derived from the noise map.