Affiliation:
1. Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China
Abstract
Face images are typically a key component in the fields of security and criminal investigation. However, due to lighting and shooting angles, faces taken under low-light conditions are often difficult to recognize. Face super-resolution (FSR) technology can restore high-resolution faces based on low-resolution inputs. However, existing face super-resolution methods typically rely on prior knowledge of inaccurate faces estimated from low-resolution images. Faces restored by low-light inputs may suffer from problems such as low brightness and many missing details. In this article, we proposed an Illumination-Enhanced Face Super-Resolution (IEFSR) model that can progressively super-resolve low-light faces of 32 × 32 pixels by an upscaling factor of 8. While reconstructing the low-light low-resolution face into a clear and high-quality face, we introduce a coarse low-resolution (LR) restoration network to recover the LR face details hidden in the dark. In the generator, we use a series of style blocks with noise to make the generated faces appear to have a more realistic visual aesthetic. Additionally, we introduce spectrum normalization in the discriminator to improve training stability. Extensive experimental evaluations show that the proposed IEFSR yields visually and metrically more attractive results than existing state-of-the-art FSR methods.
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Hunan Provincial Science and Technology Plan Project
National Science Foundation of Hunan Province
National Social Science Fund of China
Postgraduate Scientific Research Innovation Project of Hunan Province
Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of Central South University
Changsha Municipal Natural Science Foundation
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Subject
Computer Networks and Communications,Hardware and Architecture
Cited by
14 articles.
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