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Transferred Multi-Perception Attention Networks for
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; \- g8 R3 }) s8 G! Y; {) UImage super-resolution (SR) reconstruction plays a key role in coping with the increasing) Y0 x: f4 n# N2 L- Y! Q* A
demand on remote sensing imaging applications with high spatial resolution requirements. Though
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SR processes with regard to the complex spatial distribution of the remote sensing images and the" q8 V( W3 n7 Y9 l) U
diverse spatial scales of ground objects. In this paper, a novel multi-perception attention network7 J5 j r3 Q- {& Z. d
(MPSR) is developed with performance exceeding those of many existing state-of-the-art models./ P! N1 t: I& Q! |4 e
By incorporating the proposed enhanced residual block (ERB) and residual channel attention group
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. h2 F1 Y* ~* ^! m: Sstrategy is introduced, which improved the SR performance and stabilized the training procedure.
; ~2 V& b/ q" L* ^Experimental comparisons are conducted using 13 state-of-the-art methods over a remote sensing
$ M7 p/ u; h3 `6 ~% ldataset and benchmark natural image sets. The proposed model proved its excellence in both objective
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