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Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2017

Filed:

Mar. 26, 2014
Applicant:

Thomson Licensing, Issy de Moulineaux, FR;

Inventors:

Alberto Deamo, Barcelona, ES;

Axel Kochale, Springe, DE;

Jordi Salvador Marcos, Hamburg, DE;

Assignee:

THOMSON LICENSING, Issy-les-Moulineaux, unknown;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/40 (2006.01); G06T 3/40 (2006.01); G06K 9/62 (2006.01); G06T 7/73 (2017.01); G06T 7/13 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 3/4053 (2013.01); G06K 9/6215 (2013.01); G06T 3/4092 (2013.01); G06T 7/13 (2017.01); G06T 7/73 (2017.01); G06K 2009/6213 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20201 (2013.01);
Abstract

Known methods for generating super-resolved images from single input images have various disadvantages. An improved method for generating a super-resolved image from a single low-resolution input image comprises up-scaling the input image to generate an initial version of the super-resolved image, searching, for each patch of the low-resolution input image, similar low-resolution patches in first search windows within down-sampled versions of the input image, and determining, in less down-sampled versions of the input image, high-resolution patches that correspond to the similar low-resolution patches. The determined high-resolution patches are cropped, a second search window is determined in the initial version of the super-resolved image, and a best-matching position for each cropped high-resolution patch is searched within the second search window. Finally, each cropped high-resolution patch is added to the super-resolved image at its respective best-matching position.


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