FeNet: Feature Enhancement Network for Lightweight Remote-Sensing Image Super-Resolution

Abstract

In the field of remote sensing, due to memory consumption and computational burden, the single-image super-resolution (SISR) methods based on deep convolution neural networks (CNNs) are limited in practical application. To address this problem, we propose a lightweight feature enhancement network (FeNet) for accurate remote-sensing image super-resolution (SR). Considering the existence of equipment with extremely poor hardware facilities, we further design a lighter FeNet-baseline with about 158K parameters. Specifically, inspired by lattice structure, we construct a lightweight lattice block (LLB) as a nonlinear feature extraction function to improve the expression ability. Here, channel separation operation makes the upper and lower branches of the LLB only responsible for half of the features, and the weight coefficients calculated through the attention mechanism enable the upper and lower branches to communicate efficiently. Based on LLB, the feature enhancement block (FEB) is designed in a nested manner to obtain expressive features, where different layers are responsible for the features with different texture richness, and then features from different layers are sequentially fused from deep to shallow. Model parameters and multi-adds operations are used to evaluate network complexity, and extensive experiments on two remote-sensing and four SR benchmark test datasets show that our methods can achieve a good tradeoff between complexity and performance. Our code will be available at <uri xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">https://github.com/wangzheyuan-666/FeNet</uri> .