A method of infrared nephogram super-resolution based on structural group sparse representation

Abstract

For the problems of low-resolution and poor visual effect of infrared cloud images, a super-resolution method based on structural group sparse representation was proposed. In consideration of the self similarity of infrared image, a structural group sparse representation model was first established. In the training stage, the Gauss mixture model is used to study the prior information of the image structure group, and then to cluster it, using principal component analysis to get a compact classification dictionary. In the reconstruction phase, the best matching dictionary of each structure group is selected, adaptively reweighted l1-norm sparsity is introduced to effectively obtain sparse coefficient. Experimental results demonstrate that our method can achieve better reconstruction effect in both subjective visual effect and objective evaluation criteria compared with ScSR, Zeyde and NARM methods.