Iterative Patch-Based Image Upscaling

摘要

Image upscaling techniques are described. These techniques may include use of iterative and adjustment upscaling techniques to upscale an input image. A variety of functionality may be incorporated as part of these techniques, examples of which include content-adaptive patch finding techniques that may be employed to give preference to an in-place patch to minimize structure distortion. In another example, content metric techniques may be employed to assign weights for combining patches. In a further example, algorithm parameters may be adapted with respect to algorithm iterations, which may be performed to increase efficiency of computing device resource utilization and speed of performance. For instance, algorithm parameters may be adapted to enforce a minimum and/or maximum number to iterations, cease iterations for image sizes over a threshold amount, set sampling step sizes for patches, employ techniques based on color channels (which may include independence and joint processing techniques), and so on.

主权项

1. An image upscale system comprising:
a factor upscale module implemented at least partially in hardware, the factor upscale module configured to upscale an input image using a number of iterations to apply a respective scale factor, the number of iterations being adjustable by the factor upscale module; and an adjustment upscale module implemented at least partially in hardware, the adjustment upscale module configured to adjust an output of the factor upscale module to arrive at a requested amount of spatial resolution upscale for the input image.