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Transferred Multi-Perception Attention Networks for
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Image super-resolution (SR) reconstruction plays a key role in coping with the increasing
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many SR methods have been proposed over the last few years, further research is needed to improve0 G( P+ w# z3 N) {- \3 o, P0 Z
SR processes with regard to the complex spatial distribution of the remote sensing images and the! _+ {9 t! m3 @) e' A0 I$ d
diverse spatial scales of ground objects. In this paper, a novel multi-perception attention network- X. X- ]* |; d: [
(MPSR) is developed with performance exceeding those of many existing state-of-the-art models.3 G, X6 _5 A7 M6 Z
By incorporating the proposed enhanced residual block (ERB) and residual channel attention group
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and multi-level information adaptive weighted fusion. Moreover, a pre-train and transfer learning
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Experimental comparisons are conducted using 13 state-of-the-art methods over a remote sensing
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criterion and subjective perspective., `2 n4 [# h% g9 Q. {8 c7 S, I
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