{"title":"A scalable attention network for lightweight image super-resolution","authors":"Jinsheng Fang , Xinyu Chen , Jianglong Zhao , Kun Zeng","doi":"10.1016/j.jksuci.2024.102185","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Modeling long-range dependencies among features has become a consensus to improve the results of single image super-resolution (SISR), which stimulates interest in enlarging the kernel sizes in convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Although larger kernels definitely improve the network performance, network parameters and computational complexities are raised sharply as well. Hence, an optimization of setting the kernel sizes is required to improve the efficiency of the network. In this work, we study the influence of the positions of larger kernels on the network performance, and propose a scalable attention network (SCAN). In SCAN, we propose a depth-related attention block (DRAB) that consists of several multi-scale information enhancement blocks (MIEBs) and resizable-kernel attention blocks (RKABs). The RKAB dynamically adjusts the kernel size concerning the locations of the DRABs in the network. The resizable mechanism allows the network to extract more informative features in shallower layers with larger kernels and focus on useful information in deeper layers with smaller ones, which effectively improves the SR results. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed SCAN outperforms other state-of-the-art lightweight SR methods. Our codes are available at <span><span>https://github.com/ginsengf/SCAN</span><svg><path></path></svg></span>.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48547,"journal":{"name":"Journal of King Saud University-Computer and Information Sciences","volume":"36 8","pages":"Article 102185"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2000,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of King Saud University-Computer and Information Sciences","FirstCategoryId":"94","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S131915782400274X","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Modeling long-range dependencies among features has become a consensus to improve the results of single image super-resolution (SISR), which stimulates interest in enlarging the kernel sizes in convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Although larger kernels definitely improve the network performance, network parameters and computational complexities are raised sharply as well. Hence, an optimization of setting the kernel sizes is required to improve the efficiency of the network. In this work, we study the influence of the positions of larger kernels on the network performance, and propose a scalable attention network (SCAN). In SCAN, we propose a depth-related attention block (DRAB) that consists of several multi-scale information enhancement blocks (MIEBs) and resizable-kernel attention blocks (RKABs). The RKAB dynamically adjusts the kernel size concerning the locations of the DRABs in the network. The resizable mechanism allows the network to extract more informative features in shallower layers with larger kernels and focus on useful information in deeper layers with smaller ones, which effectively improves the SR results. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed SCAN outperforms other state-of-the-art lightweight SR methods. Our codes are available at https://github.com/ginsengf/SCAN.
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