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DEANet: Decomposition Enhancement and Adjustment Network for Low-Light Image Enhancement
Tsinghua Science and Technology 2023, 28 (4): 743-753
Published: 06 January 2023
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Poor illumination greatly affects the quality of obtained images. In this paper, a novel convolutional neural network named DEANet is proposed on the basis of Retinex for low-light image enhancement. DEANet combines the frequency and content information of images and is divided into three subnetworks: decomposition, enhancement, and adjustment networks, which perform image decomposition; denoising, contrast enhancement, and detail preservation; and image adjustment and generation, respectively. The model is trained on the public LOL dataset, and the experimental results show that it outperforms the existing state-of-the-art methods regarding visual effects and image quality.

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RFCNet: Remote Sensing Image Super-Resolution Using Residual Feature Calibration Network
Tsinghua Science and Technology 2023, 28 (3): 475-485
Published: 13 December 2022
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In the field of single remote sensing image Super-Resolution (SR), deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved top performance. To further enhance convolutional module performance in processing remote sensing images, we construct an efficient residual feature calibration block to generate expressive features. After harvesting residual features, we first divide them into two parts along the channel dimension. One part flows to the Self-Calibrated Convolution (SCC) to be further refined, and the other part is rescaled by the proposed Two-Path Channel Attention (TPCA) mechanism. SCC corrects local features according to their expressions under the deep receptive field, so that the features can be refined without increasing the number of calculations. The proposed TPCA uses the means and variances of feature maps to obtain accurate channel attention vectors. Moreover, a region-level nonlocal operation is introduced to capture long-distance spatial contextual information by exploring pixel dependencies at the region level. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed residual feature calibration network is superior to other SR methods in terms of quantitative metrics and visual quality.

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Information Purification Network for Remote Sensing Image Super-Resolution
Tsinghua Science and Technology 2023, 28 (2): 310-321
Published: 29 September 2022
Downloads:84

Recently, several well-performing deep convolutional neural networks were proposed for remote sensing image super-resolution (SR). However, these methods rarely consider that remote sensing images are corruptible by additional noise, blurring, and other factors. Therefore, to eliminate the interference of these factors, especially the noise, we propose a novel information purification network (IPN) for remote sensing image SR. The proposed information purification block (IPB) can process channel-wise features differently by channel separation and rescale spatial-wise features adaptively through the proposed multi-scale spatial attention mechanism. We further design an information group to explore a more powerful expressive combination of IPBs. Moreover, long and short skip connections can transmit abundant low-frequency information, making IPBs pay more attention to high-frequency information. We mix the images under various degradation models as training data in the training phase. In this way, the network can directly reconstruct various degraded images. Experiments on AID and UC Merced Land-Use datasets under multiple degradation models demonstrate that the proposed IPN performs better than state-of-the-art methods.

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