Multi-FAN: multi-spectral mosaic super-resolution via multi-scale feature aggregation network

Abstract

This paper introduces a novel method to super-resolve multi-spectral images captured by modern real-time single-shot mosaic image sensors, also known as multi-spectral cameras. Our contribution is twofold. Firstly, we super-resolve multi-spectral images from mosaic images rather than image cubes, which helps to take into account the spatial offset of each wavelength. Secondly, we introduce an external multi-scale feature aggregation network (Multi-FAN) which concatenates the feature maps with different levels of semantic information throughout a super-resolution (SR) network. A cascade of convolutional layers then implicitly selects the most valuable feature maps to generate a mosaic image. This mosaic image is then merged with the mosaic image generated by the SR network to produce a quantitatively superior image. We apply our Multi-FAN to RCAN (residual channel attention network), which is the state-of-the-art SR algorithm. We show that Multi-FAN improves both quantitative results (PSNR and SSIM) and inference time.