How Super Resolution Works

Is it really possible to zoom and enhance images like in the CSI movies? Let's find out how image super-resolution works in the real world.

References
Image Super-Resolution Using Deep Convolutional Networks (SRCNN Paper)
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1501.00092.pdf

DIV2K dataset: DIVerse 2K resolution high quality images
https://data.vision.ee.ethz.ch/cvl/DI...

Mean Squared Error: Love It or Leave It?
https://ece.uwaterloo.ca/~z70wang/pub...

Al Bovik Gives Primetime Emmy Award Acceptance Speech
   • Al Bovik Gives Primetime Emmy Award A...  

Image quality assessment: from error visibility to structural similarity (SSIM Paper)
https://ece.uwaterloo.ca/~z70wang/pub...

Loss Functions for Image Restoration with Neural Networks
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.08861.pdf

Photo-Realistic Single Image Super-Resolution Using a Generative Adversarial Network (SRGAN Paper)
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1609.04802.pdf

ESRGAN: Enhanced Super-Resolution Generative Adversarial Networks
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1809.00219.pdf

ESRGAN GitHub Repository
https://github.com/xinntao/ESRGAN

AI Neural Networks being used to generate HQ textures for older games
https://www.resetera.com/threads/ai-n...

Deep Network Interpolation for Continuous Imagery Effect Transition
http://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_...

Zoom to Learn, Learn to Zoom
http://vladlen.info/papers/zoom.pdf

See Better and Further with Super Res Zoom on the Pixel 3
https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/10/see...

Google Pixel Super Res Zoom
   • Super Res Zoom  

Handheld Multi-Frame Super-Resolution
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.03277.pdf

Pixel Recursive Super Resolution
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1702.00783.pdf

Deep Learning Crash Course References
Generative Adversarial Networks
   • Generative Adversarial Networks  

Optimization Tricks: momentum, batch-norm, and more
   • Optimization Tricks: momentum, batch-...