On the Amount of Regularization for Super-Resolution Interpolation

Yann Traonmilin (1) , Saïd Ladjal (1) , Andrés Almansa (1)

1 LTCI - Laboratoire Traitement et Communication de l'Information

Super-resolution (SR) aims at combining a number of aliased images of the same scene into a higher resolution image by using the difference in sampling caused by camera motion. As the problem of SR is generally ill-posed, techniques developed in the literature often rely on hypotheses on the regularity of the image. In this paper, we try to minimize these assumptions for the interpolation part of super-resolution. We describe situations where super-resolution interpolation is invertible and/or well conditioned. We first study the interpolation problem for large numbers of images when motions are pure translations. Then, we look at the more generic problem of super-resolution interpolation with translations and rotations. We give a simple condition on the number of images and zoom factor for perfect recovery of the high resolution image. We also study the conditioning in the critical case and propose regularization methods which adapts to local sampling variations. Thus, we avoid the generation of artifacts when the acquired data is noisy.

Domaines: Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]; Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]

Yann Traonmilin, Saïd Ladjal, Andrés Almansa. On the Amount of Regularization for Super-Resolution Interpolation. 20th European Signal Processing Conference 2012, Aug 2012, Romania. pp.380 - 384. ⟨hal-00824670⟩