Wavelet Quasi-Superresolution in Marine Applications

Abstract

Possible marine applications of superresolution are in both military and civilian purposes, such as computer vision, target recognition, detection, identification, surveillance, synthetic aperture radar, etc. In this paper, a new algorithm for superresolution is proposed. The algorithm is based on wavelet theory and morphological structure of the image. Quasi-superresolution means usage of a single image for analysis instead of several. Wavelet quasi-superresolution can be applied with less complexity than standard superresolution, because wavelet interpolation of interlaced data and statistics of different images are skipped. New criterion for comparison of original and processed image is proposed. The result is single scalar which is easy to compare