A Deep Encoder-Decoder Network For Joint Deblurring and Super-Resolution

Xinyi Zhang Fei Wang Hang Dong Yu Guo

Abstract

In this paper, we propose an end-to-end convolution neural network (CNN) to restore a clear high-resolution image from a severely blurry image. It’s a highly ill-posed problem and brings tremendous challenges to state-of-art deblurring or super-resolution (SR) methods. A straightforward way to solve this problem is to concatenate two types of networks directly. However, experiments show that the concatenation of independent networks increases computation complex- ity instead of generating satisfying high-resolution images. Consequently, we focus on designing a single deep network to solve the deblurring and SR problems in parallel. Our method, called ED-DSRN, extends the traditional Super- Resolution network by adding a deblurring branch that shares the same feature maps extracted from an encoder-decoder module with the original SR branch. Extensive experiments show that our method produces remarkable deblurred and super-resolved images simultaneously with high efficiency.