Discrete Wavelet Transform Image Super-Resolution Analysis and Deep Wavelet Prediction

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Super resolution techniques are useful in a range of industry applications from medical imaging and diagnosis to security and surveillance utilization. Since resolution enhancement of visual data from an imaging hardware point of view is costly, sensitive to environmental conditions, and time consuming, post-processing super resolution methods are a reasonable solution to improving the performance and analysis of imaging applications. In this paper, we analyze the performance of a modified Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) based super resolution algorithm on a variety of image acquisition types. A wavelet transform provides a detail as well as coarse separation of the contents of the image. We design a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to predict the missing details (residuals) in the wavelet coefficients of the low-resolution images to obtain high-resolution images. The network has multiple input and output channels which allows it to learn the different structures at different levels of the image. You can find more info here