2011 IEEE International Conference on Signal and Image Processing Applications (ICSIPA)
DOI: 10.1109/icsipa.2011.6144138
Elsevier, Signal Processing: Image Communication, 2(27), p. 180-191
DOI: 10.1016/j.image.2011.12.002
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In this paper, we address a super-resolution problem of generating a high-resolution image from low-resolution images. The proposed super-resolution method consists of three steps: image registration, singular value decomposition (SVD)-based image fusion and interpolation. The contribution of this work is two-fold. First we customize an image registration approach using Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT), Belief Propagation and Random Sampling Consensus (RANSAC) for super-resolution. Second, we propose SVD-based fusion to integrate the important features from the low-resolution images. The proposed image registration and fusion steps effectively maintain the important features and greatly improve the super-resolution results. Results, for a variety of image examples, show that the proposed method successfully generates high-resolution images from low-resolution images.