Linlin Zhu, Yu Han, Xiaoqi Xi, Zhicun Zhang, Mengnan Liu, Lei Li, Siyu Tan, Bin Yan^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.77, No.3, pp. 3367-3386, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.045878

Abstract Deep learning techniques have significantly improved image restoration tasks in recent years. As a crucial component of deep learning, the loss function plays a key role in network optimization and performance enhancement. However, the currently prevalent loss functions assign equal weight to each pixel point during loss calculation, which hampers the ability to reflect the roles of different pixel points and fails to exploit the image’s characteristics fully. To address this issue, this study proposes an asymmetric loss function based on the image and data characteristics of the image recovery task. This novel loss function can adjust the weight of… More >

Liwei Deng¹, Yuanzhi Zhang¹, Xin Yang^2,*, Sijuan Huang², Jing Wang^3,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.2, pp. 2671-2684, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.036642

Abstract High-resolution medical images have important medical value, but are difficult to obtain directly. Limited by hardware equipment and patient’s physical condition, the resolution of directly acquired medical images is often not high. Therefore, many researchers have thought of using super-resolution algorithms for secondary processing to obtain high-resolution medical images. However, current super-resolution algorithms only work on a single scale, and multiple networks need to be trained when super-resolution images of different scales are needed. This definitely raises the cost of acquiring high-resolution medical images. Thus, we propose a multi-scale super-resolution algorithm using meta-learning. The algorithm combines a meta-learning approach with… More >

Gunnam Suryanarayana^1,*, D. Bhavana², P. E. S. N. Krishna Prasad³, M. M. K. Narasimha Reddy¹, Md Zia Ur Rahman²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.1, pp. 1123-1137, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.031227

Abstract Single image super resolution (SISR) techniques produce images of high resolution (HR) as output from input images of low resolution (LR). Motivated by the effectiveness of deep learning methods, we provide a framework based on deep learning to achieve super resolution (SR) by utilizing deep singular-residual neural network (DSRNN) in training phase. Residuals are obtained from the difference between HR and LR images to generate LR-residual example pairs. Singular value decomposition (SVD) is applied to each LR-residual image pair to decompose into subbands of low and high frequency components. Later, DSRNN is trained on these subbands through input and output… More >

K. Sathya^1,*, M. Rajalakshmi²

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.42, No.1, pp. 33-47, 2022, DOI:10.32604/csse.2022.022206

Abstract In the field of agriculture, the development of an early warning diagnostic system is essential for timely detection and accurate diagnosis of diseases in rice plants. This research focuses on identifying the plant diseases and detecting them promptly through the advancements in the field of computer vision. The images obtained from in-field farms are typically with less visual information. However, there is a significant impact on the classification accuracy in the disease diagnosis due to the lack of high-resolution crop images. We propose a novel Reconstructed Disease Aware–Convolutional Neural Network (RDA-CNN), inspired by recent CNN architectures, that integrates image super… More >

Aswathy K. Cherian^*, E. Poovammal

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.69, No.2, pp. 1537-1552, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.018213

Abstract Obtaining clear images of underwater scenes with descriptive details is an arduous task. Conventional imaging techniques fail to provide clear cut features and attributes that ultimately result in object recognition errors. Consequently, a need for a system that produces clear images for underwater image study has been necessitated. To overcome problems in resolution and to make better use of the Super-Resolution (SR) method, this paper introduces a novel method that has been derived from the Alpha Generative Adversarial Network (AlphaGAN) model, named Alpha Super Resolution Generative Adversarial Network (AlphaSRGAN). The model put forth in this paper helps in enhancing the… More >

Liu Xiangchun¹, Chen Zhan¹, Song Wei^1,2,3,*, Li Fenglei¹, Yang Yanxing⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.68, No.3, pp. 4017-4029, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.017086

Abstract The images captured by different observation station have different resolutions. The Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI: a part of the NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has low-precision but wide coverage. And the Goode Solar Telescope (GST, formerly known as the New Solar Telescope) at Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) solar images has high precision but small coverage. The super-resolution can make the captured images become clearer, so it is wildly used in solar image processing. The traditional super-resolution methods, such as interpolation, often use single image’s feature to improve the image’s quality. The methods based on deep learning-based super-resolution image… More >

G. R. Hemalakshmi^*, D. Santhi, V. R. S. Mani, A. Geetha, N. B. Prakash

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.125, No.1, pp. 125-143, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2020.011331

Abstract Diabetic retinopathy, aged macular degeneration, glaucoma etc. are widely prevalent ocular pathologies which are irreversible at advanced stages. Machine learning based automated detection of these pathologies facilitate timely clinical interventions, preventing adverse outcomes. Ophthalmologists screen these pathologies with fundus Fluorescein Angiography Images (FFA) which capture retinal components featuring diverse morphologies such as retinal vasculature, macula, optical disk etc. However, these images have low resolutions, hindering the accurate detection of ocular disorders. Construction of high resolution images from these images, by super resolution approaches expedites the diagnosis of pathologies with better accuracy. This paper presents a deep learning network for Single… More >

Tingting Yang¹, Shuwen Jia¹, Hao Ma^{2, *}

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.62, No.3, pp. 1249-1258, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.05777

Abstract Underwater imaging is widely used in ocean, river and lake exploration, but it is affected by properties of water and the optics. In order to solve the lower-resolution underwater image formed by the influence of water and light, the image super-resolution reconstruction technique is applied to the underwater image processing. This paper addresses the problem of generating super-resolution underwater images by convolutional neural network framework technology. We research the degradation model of underwater images, and analyze the lower-resolution factors of underwater images in different situations, and compare different traditional super-resolution image reconstruction algorithms. We further show that the algorithm of… More >