Image Super-Resolution Reconstruction Based on Multi-scale Residual Learning

Abstract

Current image super-resolution (SR) reconstruction methods based on deep learning focus more on using the learning capabilities of deeper networks to obtain better reconstruction results, but the increase in depth will increase the complexity of the network structure and the difficulty of training. To address this problem, considering the advantages of residual learning that can overcome the problem of low learning efficiency, and the ability of multiscale networks that can extract global and local features at different scales, this paper proposes a multi-scale residual block (MSRB) for feature learning. Based on the constructed MSRB, a cascaded multi-scale residual network (CMSRN) is developed for image SR reconstruction. In the network, to reconstruct richer image texture details, multiple multi-scale residual blocks are cascaded to construct the residual feature learning part. Experimental results on four datasets show that the proposed network can obtain better reconstruction results, and is superior to state-of-the-art SR reconstruction methods in terms of subjective observation and objective quantitative evaluation.