Video Super-Resolution With Temporal Group Attention

• Published in: Proceedings (IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Online) pp. 8005 - 8014
• Main Authors: Isobe, Takashi, Li, Songjiang, Jia, Xu, Yuan, Shanxin, Slabaugh, Gregory, Xu, Chunjing, Li, Ya-Li, Wang, Shengjin, Tian, Qi
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.06.2020
• Subjects: Feature extraction; Motion compensation; Motion estimation; Optical distortion; Spatial resolution; Three-dimensional displays
• ISSN: 1063-6919
• DOI: 10.1109/CVPR42600.2020.00803

Video super-resolution, which aims at producing a high-resolution video from its corresponding low-resolution version, has recently drawn increasing attention. In this work, we propose a novel method that can effectively incorporate temporal information in a hierarchical way. The input sequence is divided into several groups, with each one corresponding to a kind of frame rate. These groups provide complementary information to recover missing details in the reference frame, which is further integrated with an attention module and a deep intra-group fusion module. In addition, a fast spatial alignment is proposed to handle videos with large motion. Extensive results demonstrate the capability of the proposed model in handling videos with various motion. It achieves favorable performance against state-of-the-art methods on several benchmark datasets.