Hallucinating very low-Resolution unaligned and noisy face images by transformative discriminative autoencoders
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2017
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Yu, Xin
Porikli, Fatih
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IEEE
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Most of the conventional face hallucination methods assume the input image is sufficiently large and aligned, and all require the input image to be noise-free. Their performance degrades drastically if the input image is tiny, unaligned, and contaminated by noise. In this paper, we introduce a novel transformative discriminative autoencoder to 8X super-resolve unaligned noisy and tiny (16X16) low-resolution face images. In contrast to encoder-decoder based autoencoders, our method uses decoder-encoder-decoder networks. We first employ a transformative discriminative decoder network to upsample and denoise simultaneously. Then we use a transformative encoder network to project the intermediate HR faces to aligned and noise-free LR faces. Finally, we use the second decoder to generate hallucinated HR images. Our extensive evaluations on a very large face dataset show that our method achieves superior hallucination results and outperforms the state-of-the-art by a large margin of 1.82dB PSNR.
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IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops
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