An Iterative Framework of Cascaded Deblocking and Superresolution for Compressed Images
Tao Li, Xiaohai He, Linbo Qing, Qizhi Teng, Honggang Chen · IEEE Transactions on Multimedia · 2017
Superresolution (SR) of compressed images is chall-enging due to the combination of resolution loss and compression artifacts. To solve these intertwined problems, the conventional cascading framework splits the solution into independent deblocking and SR subprocesses, where some existing high-frequency (HF) components are often oversmoothed during deblocking and information exchange between cascaded deblocking and SR remains untouched. In this paper, we propose an iterative cascading framework after analyzing the correlation between the two subprocesses. Deblocking is provided with a shape-adaptive low-rank prior to well preserve edges and an extra prior to restore the lost HF components. The latter prior represents an important feedback link from SR to deblocking, which is a novel design in this framework. To provide an accurate and noise-robust feedback of the extra prior, an SR method via singular value decomposition projection is also developed. The extensive experimental results demonstrate the superior performance of the proposed method.