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Inception residual attention network for remote sensingimage super-resolution + G$ |5 J/ n" [. D A* Z# c& s" K
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How to enhance the spatial resolution for a remote sensing image is 3 |% C: c C' [& y; i; L
an important issue that we face. Many image super-resolution (SR) 4 @* c/ u, d# X. Z
techniques have been proposed for this purpose and deep con
# l- I% P9 G: `& Ovolutional neural network (CNN) is the most effective approach in + X% W/ M% n/ X/ v: v' q/ ?& A9 K
recent years. However, we observe that most CNN-based SR meth
( t; D! S F* {" B6 ?- u7 eods treat low-frequency areas and high-frequency areas equally,
+ p/ J/ \: ^0 e% Z6 ]hence hindering the recovery of high-frequency information. In this 1 c& ~1 o6 N. G2 w9 D
paper, we propose a network named inception residual attention
5 Y" J, S# O7 L* S$ C2 t u( `* {7 Lnetwork (IRAN) to address this problem. Specifically, we propose
9 U$ F0 F4 T I% l" j! La spatial attention module to make the network adaptively learn
- `: e+ R1 V3 m& Dthe importance of different spatial areas, so as to pay more atten
# e3 s4 @# c! O6 @# D; M6 J6 Rtion to the areas with high-frequency information. Furthermore, we $ Z, d4 ]# h( M5 J' i( T( a* R
present an inception module to fuse local multilevel features, so as ; T! ~" V- Z* c1 q- Q8 a# u5 o$ P- \
to provide richer information for reconstructing detailed textures. In % X* D2 ]/ I' U& {5 Z9 N
order to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed method, a large " V% o% q; F+ z4 U0 i* y
number of experiments are performed on UCMerced-LandUse data
0 g( B; v1 k3 Y: k, u0 cset and the results show that the proposed method is superior to
* m6 i1 @: l) l) F3 D Athe current state-of-the-art methods in both visual effects and " D( R6 z8 c: P% {1 W
objective indicators.
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