Residual Attribute Attention Network for Face Image Super-Resolution

Authors

  • Jingwei Xin Xidian University
  • Nannan Wang Xidian University
  • Xinbo Gao Xidian University
  • Jie Li Xidian University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v33i01.33019054

Abstract

Facial prior knowledge based methods recently achieved great success on the task of face image super-resolution (SR). The combination of different type of facial knowledge could be leveraged for better super-resolving face images, e.g., facial attribute information with texture and shape information. In this paper, we present a novel deep end-to-end network for face super resolution, named Residual Attribute Attention Network (RAAN), which realizes the efficient feature fusion of various types of facial information. Specifically, we construct a multi-block cascaded structure network with dense connection. Each block has three branches: Texture Prediction Network (TPN), Shape Generation Network (SGN) and Attribute Analysis Network (AAN). We divide the task of face image reconstruction into three steps: extracting the pixel level representation information from the input very low resolution (LR) image via TPN and SGN, extracting the semantic level representation information by AAN from the input, and finally combining the pixel level and semantic level information to recover the high resolution (HR) image. Experiments on benchmark database illustrate that RAAN significantly outperforms state-of-the-arts for very low-resolution face SR problem, both quantitatively and qualitatively.

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Published

2019-07-17

How to Cite

Xin, J., Wang, N., Gao, X., & Li, J. (2019). Residual Attribute Attention Network for Face Image Super-Resolution. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 33(01), 9054-9061. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v33i01.33019054

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AAAI Technical Track: Vision