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http://dx.doi.org/10.5573/ieie.2015.52.4.175

Learning-based Super-resolution for Text Images  

Heo, Bo-Young (Department of Electronic Engineering, Inha University)
Song, Byung Cheol (Department of Electronic Engineering, Inha University)
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Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers / v.52, no.4, 2015 , pp. 175-183 More about this Journal
Abstract
The proposed algorithm consists of two stages: the learning and synthesis stages. At the learning stage, we first collect various high-resolution (HR)-low-resolution (LR) text image pairs, and quantize the LR images, and extract HR-LR block pairs. Based on quantized LR blocks, the LR-HR block pairs are clustered into a pre-determined number of classes. For each class, an optimal 2D-FIR filter is computed, and it is stored into a dictionary with the corresponding LR block for indexing. At the synthesis stage, each quantized LR block in an input LR image is compared with every LR block in the dictionary, and the FIR filter of the best-matched LR block is selected. Finally, a HR block is synthesized with the chosen filter, and a final HR image is produced. Also, in order to cope with noisy environment, we generate multiple dictionaries according to noise level at the learning stage. So, the dictionary corresponding to the noise level of the input image is chosen, and a final HR image is produced using the selected dictionary. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm outperforms the previous works for noisy images as well as noise-free images.
Keywords
text; super-resolution; noise; multi-dictionary; quantization;
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