Bilateral back-projection for single image super resolution

In this paper, a novel algorithm for single image super resolution is proposed. Back-projection [1] can minimize the reconstruction error with an efficient iterative procedure. Although it can produce visually appealing result, this method suffers from the chessboard effect and ringing effect, especially along strong edges. The underlining reason is that there is no edge guidance in the error correction process. Bilateral filtering can achieve edge-preserving image smoothing by adding the extra information from the feature domain. The basic idea is to do the smoothing on the pixels which are nearby both in space domain and in feature domain. The proposed bilateral back-projection algorithm strives to integrate the bilateral filtering into the back-projection method. In our approach, the back-projection process can be guided by the edge information to avoid across-edge smoothing, thus the chessboard effect and ringing effect along image edges are removed. Promising results can be obtained by the proposed bilateral back-projection method efficiently.