Super-Resolving Beyond Satellite Hardware Using Realistically Degraded Images

Autor:	White, Jack, Codoreanu, Alex, Zuleta, Ignacio, Lynch, Colm, Marchisio, Giovanni, Petrie, Stephen, Duffy, Alan R.
Rok vydání:	2021
Předmět:	Electrical Engineering and Systems Science - Image and Video Processing Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Computer Science - Machine Learning I.4.3
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
Popis:	Modern deep Super-Resolution (SR) networks have established themselves as valuable techniques in image reconstruction and enhancement. However, these networks are normally trained and tested on benchmark image data that lacks the typical image degrading noise present in real images. In this paper, we test the feasibility of using deep SR in real remote sensing payloads by assessing SR performance in reconstructing realistically degraded satellite images. We demonstrate that a state-of-the-art SR technique called Enhanced Deep Super-Resolution Network (EDSR), without domain specific pre-training, can recover encoded pixel data on images with poor ground sampling distance, provided the ground resolved distance is sufficient. However, this recovery varies amongst selected geographical types. Our results indicate that custom training has potential to further improve reconstruction of overhead imagery, and that new satellite hardware should prioritise optical performance over minimising pixel size as deep SR can overcome a lack of the latter but not the former. Comment: 6 pages, 6 figures, for supplementary results, see https://smpetrie.github.io/superres/
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/2103.06270 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv