1. Cyber Physical System Research and Development Center, The Third Research Institute of Ministry of Public Security, Shanghai 201204, China 2. School of Communication and Information Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China 3. School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China 4. Shanghai Chenrui Information Technology Company, Shanghai 201204, China 5. College of Information and Computer Science, Shanghai Business School, Shanghai 201400, China
A critical issue in image interpolation is preserving edge detail and texture information in images when zooming. In this paper, we propose a novel adaptive image zooming algorithm using weighted least-square estimation that can achieve arbitrary integer-ratio zoom (WLS-AIZ) For a given zooming ratio n, every pixel in a low-resolution (LR) image is associated with an n × n block of high-resolution (HR) pixels in the HR image. In WLS-AIZ, the LR image is interpolated using the bilinear method in advance. Model parameters of every n × n block are worked out throughweighted least-square estimation. Subsequently, each pixel in the n × n block is substituted by a combination of its eight neighboring HR pixels using estimated parameters. Finally, a refinement strategy is adopted to obtain the ultimate HR pixel values. The proposed algorithm has significant adaptability to local image structure. Extensive experiments comparingWLS-AIZ with other state of the art image zooming methods demonstrate the superiority of WLS-AIZ. In terms of peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR), structural similarity index (SSIM) and feature similarity index (FSIM), WLS-AIZ produces better results than all other image integer-ratio zoom algorithms.
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