A New Integrated Approach Based on the Iterative Super-Resolution Algorithm and Expectation Maximization for Face Hallucination

This paper proposed and verified a new integrated approach based on the iterative super-resolution algorithm and expectation-maximization for face hallucination, which is a process of converting a low-resolution face image to a high-resolution image. The current sparse representation for super resol...

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Published inApplied sciences Vol. 10; no. 2; p. 718
Main Authors Lakshminarayanan, K., Santhana Krishnan, R., Golden Julie, E., Harold Robinson, Y., Kumar, Raghvendra, Son, Le Hoang, Hung, Trinh Xuan, Samui, Pijush, Ngo, Phuong Thao Thi, Tien Bui, Dieu
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Basel MDPI AG 01.01.2020
Subjects
Accuracy
Algorithms
Cameras
expectation maximization
global sparse representation
hallucination
Hallucinations
High resolution
Integrated approach
Maximization
Methods
Misalignment
Multimedia
Representations
Surveillance
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Summary:This paper proposed and verified a new integrated approach based on the iterative super-resolution algorithm and expectation-maximization for face hallucination, which is a process of converting a low-resolution face image to a high-resolution image. The current sparse representation for super resolving generic image patches is not suitable for global face images due to its lower accuracy and time-consumption. To solve this, in the new method, training global face sparse representation was used to reconstruct images with misalignment variations after the local geometric co-occurrence matrix. In the testing phase, we proposed a hybrid method, which is a combination of the sparse global representation and the local linear regression using the Expectation Maximization (EM) algorithm. Therefore, this work recovered the high-resolution image of a corresponding low-resolution image. Experimental validation suggested improvement of the overall accuracy of the proposed method with fast identification of high-resolution face images without misalignment.
ISSN:2076-3417
2076-3417
DOI:10.3390/app10020718