15th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'00) - Volume 1 Super-Resolution Enhancement of Text Image Sequences Barcelona, Spain September 03-September 08 ISBN: 0-7695-0750-6
The objective of this work is the super-resolution enhancement of image sequences. We consider in particular images of scenes for which the point-to-point image transformation is a plane projective transformation. We first describe the imaging model, and a maximum likelihood (ML) estimator of the super-resolution image. We demonstrate the extreme noise sensitivity of the unconstrained ML estimator. We show that the Irani and Peleg [9, 10] super-resolution algorithm does not suffer from this sensitivity, and explain that this stability is due to the error back-projection method, which effectively constrains the solution. We then propose two estimators suitable for the enhancement of text images: a maximum a posterior (MAP) estimator based on a Huber prior, and an estimator regularized using the Total Variation norm. We demonstrate the improved noise robustness of these approaches over the Irani and Peleg estimator. We also show the effects of a poorly estimated point spread function (PSF) on the super-resolution result and explain conditions necessary for this parameter to be included in the optimization. Results are evaluated on both real and synthetic sequences of text images. In the case of the real images, the projective transformations relating the images are estimated automatically from the image data, so that the entire algorithm is automatic.
Citation:
David Capel, Andrew Zisserman, "Super-Resolution Enhancement of Text Image Sequences," icpr, vol. 1, pp.1600, 15th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'00) - Volume 1, 2000 Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||