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Inception residual attention network for remote sensingimage super-resolution , V% ^# R( i7 R7 k
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[, M4 D+ o; R; `How to enhance the spatial resolution for a remote sensing image is % Q6 G1 P3 O, u: I. Q
an important issue that we face. Many image super-resolution (SR)
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$ W9 \5 J: q0 r0 M- M! qvolutional neural network (CNN) is the most effective approach in $ k R( A1 j0 W
recent years. However, we observe that most CNN-based SR meth5 V+ P. Q9 A$ i' n( ~' N6 A
ods treat low-frequency areas and high-frequency areas equally, " P/ j, j8 x0 C
hence hindering the recovery of high-frequency information. In this * o' G5 h+ G* R5 x' n
paper, we propose a network named inception residual attention
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a spatial attention module to make the network adaptively learn 7 _; r& p: x) {5 i8 m
the importance of different spatial areas, so as to pay more atten
W* k9 T5 r2 I7 \tion to the areas with high-frequency information. Furthermore, we
* e: ?) X$ m+ L3 ^; R+ C- lpresent an inception module to fuse local multilevel features, so as
7 F3 m! R# x. H" e* Zto provide richer information for reconstructing detailed textures. In
9 {" P4 N& X: X6 ?6 ?1 P* jorder to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed method, a large
6 }5 q. O( z- k9 W! v8 Ynumber of experiments are performed on UCMerced-LandUse data 2 p; H" n5 f0 c7 j) t
set and the results show that the proposed method is superior to 0 M+ G, k" `2 V+ y1 [3 O" e2 v& v) U8 S8 ~
the current state-of-the-art methods in both visual effects and
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