Spatial-frequency-based metric for image superresolution. Woods, M. & Katsaggelos, A. K. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 32(11):2002, nov, 2015.
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The image processing technique known as superresolution (SR) has the potential to allow engineers to specify lower resolution and, therefore, less expensive cameras for a given task by enhancing the base camera's resolution. This is especially true in the remote detection and classification of objects in the environment, such as aircraft or human faces. Performing each of these tasks requires a minimum image “sharpness” which is quantified by a maximum resolvable spatial frequency, which is, in turn, a function of the camera optics, pixel sampling density, and signal-to-noise ratio. Much of the existing SR literature focuses on SR performance metrics for candidate algorithms, such as perceived image quality or peak SNR. These metrics can be misleading because they also credit deblurring and/or denoising in addition to true SR. In this paper, we propose a new, task-based metric where the performance of an SR algorithm is, instead, directly tied to the probability of successfully detecting critical spatial frequencies within the scene.
@article{Matthew2015,
abstract = {The image processing technique known as superresolution (SR) has the potential to allow engineers to specify lower resolution and, therefore, less expensive cameras for a given task by enhancing the base camera's resolution. This is especially true in the remote detection and classification of objects in the environment, such as aircraft or human faces. Performing each of these tasks requires a minimum image “sharpness” which is quantified by a maximum resolvable spatial frequency, which is, in turn, a function of the camera optics, pixel sampling density, and signal-to-noise ratio. Much of the existing SR literature focuses on SR performance metrics for candidate algorithms, such as perceived image quality or peak SNR. These metrics can be misleading because they also credit deblurring and/or denoising in addition to true SR. In this paper, we propose a new, task-based metric where the performance of an SR algorithm is, instead, directly tied to the probability of successfully detecting critical spatial frequencies within the scene.},
author = {Woods, Matthew and Katsaggelos, Aggelos K.},
doi = {10.1364/JOSAA.32.002002},
issn = {1084-7529},
journal = {Journal of the Optical Society of America A},
month = {nov},
number = {11},
pages = {2002},
title = {{Spatial-frequency-based metric for image superresolution}},
url = {https://opg.optica.org/abstract.cfm?URI=josaa-32-11-2002},
volume = {32},
year = {2015}
}

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