This is the research code for the paper:

Jia-Bin Huang, Abhishek Singh, and [Narendra Ahuja] (https://vision.ai.illinois.edu/ahuja.html), "Single Image Super-Resolution from Transformed Self-Exemplars", CVPR 2015 PDF

The proposed algorithm achieves the state-of-the-art performance on image super-resolution without the need of any external training dataset, feature extraction and complicated learning algorithms. For more details, please visit our Project page.

All the datasets (Set5, Set14, Urban 100, BSD 100, Sun-Hays 80), precomputed results and visual comparisons can be found in the following sections.

If you find the code and dataset useful in your research, please consider citing:

@inproceedings{Huang-CVPR-2015,
    title={Single Image Super-Resolution From Transformed Self-Exemplars},
    Author = {Huang, Jia-Bin and Singh, Abhishek and Ahuja, Narendra},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition},
    pages={5197--5206},
    Year = {2015}
}

To run the algorithm on all datasets, simply run the sr_demo_bacth.m. Note that it is an educational code that is not optimized for speed. If timing is a concern, you can achieve visually similar results with small numbers of iterations, e.g., set the number of iterations opt.numIter = 5; in the file sr_init_opt.m. An example of the speed and quality trade-off can be found in Fig. 10 in the paper.

Feedbacks and comments are welcome! Feel free to contact me via [email protected].

Enjoy!

Note: For vanishing point detection only windows executable is provided (from Image Completion using Planar Structure Guidance), a cross-platform version will be included later.

The full super-resolution results on Set 5, Set 14, Urban 100, BSD 100 and Sun-Hays 80 are available.

| Dataset | Image source | Download full results | |---- | ---|----| ----| | Set 5 | Bevilacqua et al. BMVC 2012 | link (16.1 MB)| | Set 14 | Zeyde et al. LNCS 2010 | link (86.0 MB)| | Urban 100 | Huang et al. CVPR 2015 | link (1.14 GB)| | BSD 100 | Martin et al. ICCV 2001 | link (568 MB)| | Sun-Hays 80 | Sun and Hays ICCP 2012 | link (311 MB)|

Set 5 dataset - link

Set 14 dataset - link

Urban 100 dataset - link

BSD 100 dataset - link

Sun-Hays 80 dataset - link

In each dataset, we include results of the state-of-the-art single image super-resolution algorithms:

In our supplementary material, we includde 120 sample comparisons with the state-of-the-art algorithms. Download the document here.

You can browse and compare our results with other methods via the following links.

• Urbana 100 - Super-resolution factor 4x
• BSD 100 - Super-resolution factor 3x
• Sun-Hays 80 - Super-resolution factor 8x

We report three types of metrics

• PSNR: Peak signal-to-noise ratio
• SSIM: Structural similarity index
• IFC: Information fidelity criterion