Inception residual attention network for remote sensingimage super-resolution % Y+ i$ ^1 ~ [) `: e' i1 W
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How to enhance the spatial resolution for a remote sensing image is % y- L$ j: t) M2 U5 Y5 k$ b
an important issue that we face. Many image super-resolution (SR)
0 I- J+ K: U" T" Ctechniques have been proposed for this purpose and deep con
! b! i0 ~6 j- lvolutional neural network (CNN) is the most effective approach in % x8 _7 g% k* f, ]# G ^7 G
recent years. However, we observe that most CNN-based SR meth
" V8 m) |- ]% F- bods treat low-frequency areas and high-frequency areas equally,
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paper, we propose a network named inception residual attention , n% b) T! p& q% x+ \" t' M
network (IRAN) to address this problem. Specifically, we propose
5 t. V% B. \' B/ ]5 u. C7 b: h( S- d2 da spatial attention module to make the network adaptively learn
- c X) @/ w0 [- ]+ ~the importance of different spatial areas, so as to pay more atten
$ f" f, T. F" C& Wtion to the areas with high-frequency information. Furthermore, we 5 T: |% W0 P- {4 f4 e) i# S
present an inception module to fuse local multilevel features, so as ! P5 e3 Z4 o& ~( C
to provide richer information for reconstructing detailed textures. In
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number of experiments are performed on UCMerced-LandUse data
+ r* A: Y8 B# i! d7 V1 _set and the results show that the proposed method is superior to
# B. l1 q7 m$ F9 k; e( R+ wthe current state-of-the-art methods in both visual effects and
' w; l9 R& \; u( J+ \" e9 }: gobjective indicators.
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