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The current super‐resolution (SR) deep network is mainly applied to the common image and pays little attention to the image with noise. The remote sensing image contains much noise, so that the SR reconstruction effect is not satisfactory. Therefore, a convolution blind denoising adaptive dense connection SR (CBD‐ADCSR) network for the remote sensing image is proposed in this paper. The whole model is divided into a convolution blind denoising (CBD) network for denoising and an ADCSR network for reconstruction. Firstly, the components of the network are given in detail and are analysed. Secondly, a data set making method is designed combining motion blur, defocusing blur and Gaussian noise, which is used to generate low‐resolution image data sets with complex degradation for the model training. Finally, through the detailed comparative experiment, it is proved that the reconstruction effect of the CBD‐ADCSR model is better than that of the most state‐of‐the‐art algorithms in objective criteria. In addition, compared with the original ADCSR network, CBD‐ADCSR has a stronger ability for noise suppression.

Super-Resolution (SR) is a fundamental computer vision task that aims to obtain a high-resolution clean image from the given low-resolution counterpart. This paper reviews the NTIRE 2021 Challenge on Video Super-Resolution. We present evaluation results from two competition tracks as well as the proposed solutions. Track 1 aims to develop conventional video SR methods focusing on the restoration quality. Track 2 assumes a more challenging environment with lower frame rates, casting spatio-temporal SR problem. In each competition, 247 and 223 participants have registered, respectively. During the final testing phase, 14 teams competed in each track to achieve state-of-the-art performance on video SR tasks.

Increasing model size often results in improved performance on super-resolution reconstruction. However, at some point large model cannot SR huge images due to GPU/TPU memory limitations. In this paper, to address this problem, we present Block-Reconstruction(BR) strategy to improve the reconstruction quality of large images, which lower memory consumption. Meanwhile, we propose an enhanced adaptive dense connection super resolution reconstruction network(EDCSR) that has 89M parameters. In AIM2020 Real Image Super-Resolution Challenge, we won the second place in Track 1 and Track 2, and the third place in Track 3.

This paper introduces the real image Super-Resolution (SR) challenge that was part of the Advances in Image Manipulation (AIM) workshop, held in conjunction with ECCV 2020. This challenge involves three tracks to super-resolve an input image for \(\times \)2, \(\times \)3 and \(\times \)4 scaling factors, respectively. The goal is to attract more attention to realistic image degradation for the SR task, which is much more complicated and challenging, and contributes to real-world image super-resolution applications. 452 participants were registered for three tracks in total, and 24 teams submitted their results. They gauge the state-of-the-art approaches for real image SR in terms of PSNR and SSIM.

This paper reviews the AIM 2019 challenge on extreme image super-resolution, the problem of restoring of rich details in a low resolution image. Compared to previous, this challenge focuses on an extreme upscaling factor, ×16, and employs the novel DIVerse 8K resolution (DIV8K) dataset. This report focuses on the proposed solutions and final results. The challenge had 2 tracks. The goal in Track 1 was to generate a super-resolution result with high fidelity, using the conventional PSNR as the primary metric to evaluate different methods. Track 2 instead focused on generating visually more pleasant super-resolution results, evaluated using subjective opinions. The two tracks had 71 and 52 registered participants, respectively, and 9 teams competed in the final testing phase. This report gauges the experimental protocol and baselines for the extreme image super-resolution task.

For a better performance in single image super-resolution(SISR), we present an image super-resolution algorithm based on adaptive dense connection (ADCSR). The algorithm is divided into two parts: BODY and SKIP. BODY improves the utilization of convolution features through adaptive dense connections. Also, we develop an adaptive sub-pixel reconstruction layer (AFSL) to reconstruct the features of the BODY output. We pre-trained SKIP to make BODY focus on high-frequency feature learning. The comparison of PSNR, SSIM, and visual effects verify the superiority of our method to the state-of-the-art algorithms.