Deep Interleaved Network for Single Image Super-Resolution with Asymmetric Co-Attention

Deep Interleaved Network for Single Image Super-Resolution with Asymmetric Co-Attention

Feng Li, Runmin Cong, Huihui Bai, Yifan He

Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Main track. Pages 537-543. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2020/75

Recently, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) based image super-resolution (SR) have shown significant success in the literature. However, these methods are implemented as single-path stream to enrich feature maps from the input for the final prediction, which fail to fully incorporate former low-level features into later high-level features. In this paper, to tackle this problem, we propose a deep interleaved network (DIN) to learn how information at different states should be combined for image SR where shallow information guides deep representative features prediction. Our DIN follows a multi-branch pattern allowing multiple interconnected branches to interleave and fuse at different states. Besides, the asymmetric co-attention (AsyCA) is proposed and attacked to the interleaved nodes to adaptively emphasize informative features from different states and improve the discriminative ability of networks. Extensive experiments demonstrate the superiority of our proposed DIN in comparison with the state-of-the-art SR methods.
Keywords:
Computer Vision: 2D and 3D Computer Vision