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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 increasing0 h! b2 @6 Q1 I( @5 G' O; ?4 v
demand on remote sensing imaging applications with high spatial resolution requirements. Though
( s1 K% G/ q4 i4 Rmany SR methods have been proposed over the last few years, further research is needed to improve
/ `7 D, H. _* f* L4 YSR processes with regard to the complex spatial distribution of the remote sensing images and the, g" k/ Z. L8 r& Z
diverse spatial scales of ground objects. In this paper, a novel multi-perception attention network
0 d8 o" C7 Q* c7 }. `5 a4 M(MPSR) is developed with performance exceeding those of many existing state-of-the-art models.. z/ R( B; V- m' }1 F" r) _
By incorporating the proposed enhanced residual block (ERB) and residual channel attention group% n! c7 O5 N7 i7 m8 G* W1 F; y
(RCAG), MPSR can super-resolve low-resolution remote sensing images via multi-perception learning
# D7 J+ ^7 |' pand multi-level information adaptive weighted fusion. Moreover, a pre-train and transfer learning; {! c, S2 \% b O! o# ]
strategy is introduced, which improved the SR performance and stabilized the training procedure.) c0 U5 E3 | z* q* }1 L+ D8 s* i
Experimental comparisons are conducted using 13 state-of-the-art methods over a remote sensing
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