Face hallucination or super-resolution is an inverse problem which is underdetermined,and the compressive sensing(CS)theory provides an effective way of seeking inverse problem solutions.In this paper,a novel compress...Face hallucination or super-resolution is an inverse problem which is underdetermined,and the compressive sensing(CS)theory provides an effective way of seeking inverse problem solutions.In this paper,a novel compressive sensing based face hallucination method is presented,which is comprised of three steps:dictionary learning、sparse coding and solving maximum a posteriori(MAP)formulation.In the first step,the K-SVD dictionary learning algorithm is adopted to obtain a dictionary which can sparsely represent high resolution(HR)face image patches.In the second step,we seek the sparsest representation for each low-resolution(LR)face image paches input using the learned dictionary,super resolution image blocks are obtained from the sparsest coefficients and dictionaries,which then are assembled into super-resolution(SR)image.Finally,MAP formulation is introduced to satisfy the consistency restrictive condition and obtain the higher quality HR images.The experimental results demonstrate that our approach can achieve better super-resolution faces compared with other state-of-the-art method.展开更多
文摘Face hallucination or super-resolution is an inverse problem which is underdetermined,and the compressive sensing(CS)theory provides an effective way of seeking inverse problem solutions.In this paper,a novel compressive sensing based face hallucination method is presented,which is comprised of three steps:dictionary learning、sparse coding and solving maximum a posteriori(MAP)formulation.In the first step,the K-SVD dictionary learning algorithm is adopted to obtain a dictionary which can sparsely represent high resolution(HR)face image patches.In the second step,we seek the sparsest representation for each low-resolution(LR)face image paches input using the learned dictionary,super resolution image blocks are obtained from the sparsest coefficients and dictionaries,which then are assembled into super-resolution(SR)image.Finally,MAP formulation is introduced to satisfy the consistency restrictive condition and obtain the higher quality HR images.The experimental results demonstrate that our approach can achieve better super-resolution faces compared with other state-of-the-art method.
