Super-Resolution Inpainting of Low-resolution Randomly Occluded Face Images

REN Kun; LI Zhengzhen; GUI Yuanze; FAN Chunqi; LUAN Heng

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REN Kun, LI Zhengzhen, GUI Yuanze, FAN Chunqi, LUAN Heng. Super-Resolution Inpainting of Low-resolution Randomly Occluded Face Images[J]. Journal of Electronics & Information Technology, 2024, 46(8): 3343-3352. doi: 10.11999/JEIT231262

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REN Kun, LI Zhengzhen, GUI Yuanze, FAN Chunqi, LUAN Heng. Super-Resolution Inpainting of Low-resolution Randomly Occluded Face Images[J]. Journal of Electronics & Information Technology, 2024, 46(8): 3343-3352. doi: 10.11999/JEIT231262

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Super-Resolution Inpainting of Low-resolution Randomly Occluded Face Images

doi: 10.11999/JEIT231262 cstr: 32379.14.JEIT231262

REN Kun^{1, 2, 3
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LI Zhengzhen^{1, 2, 3},
GUI Yuanze¹,
FAN Chunqi¹,
LUAN Heng⁴

1.
Faculty of Information Technology, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China
2.
Engineering Research Center of Digital Community, Ministry of Education, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China
3.
Beijing Laboratory for Urban Mass Transit, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China
4.
TravelSky Technology Limited, Beijing 101300, China

Funds: The National Key Research and Development Project (2023YFC3904605)

Received Date: 2023-11-15
Rev Recd Date: 2024-02-05

Available Online: 2024-03-04

Publish Date: 2024-08-30

Abstract

Abstract

An end-to-end quadruple Super-Resolution Inpainting Generative Adversarial Network (SRIGAN) is proposed in this paper, for low-resolution random occlusion face images. The generative network consists of an encoder, a feature compensation subnetwork, and a decoder constructed with a pyramid attention module. The discriminant network is an improved Patch discriminant network. The network can effectively learn the absent features of the occluded region through a feature compensation subnetwork and a two-stage training strategy. Then, the information is constructed with the decoder with a pyramid attention module and multi-scale reconstruction loss. Hence, the generative network can transform a low-resolution occlusion image into a quadruple high-resolution complete image. Furthermore, the improvements of the loss function and Patch discriminant network are employed to ensure the stability of network training and enhance the performance of the generated network. The effectiveness of the proposed algorithm is verified by comparison and module verification experiments.
- Image inpainting,
- Super-Resolution(SR),
- Generative Adversarial Network(GAN),
- Pyramid attention

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