关键词: 超分辨率重建, 注意力机制, 深度可分离卷积, 残差网络, 卷积神经网络

Abstract: At present, super-resolution reconstruction of a single image achieves a good effect, but most models achieve the good effect by increasing the number of network layers rather than exploring the correlation between channels. In order to solve this problem, an image super-resolution reconstruction method based on Channel Attention mechanism (CA) and Depthwise Separable Convolution (DSC) was proposed. The multi-path global and local residual learning were adopted by the entire model. Firstly, the shallow feature extraction block was used to extract the features of the input image. Then, the channel attention mechanism was introduced in the deep feature extraction block, and the correlation of the channels was increased by adjusting the weights of the feature graphs of different channels to extract the high-frequency feature information. Finally, a high-resolution image was reconstructed. In order to reduce the huge parameter influence brought by the attention mechanism, the depthwise separable convolution technology was used in the local residual block to greatly reduce the training parameters. Meanwhile, the Adaptive moment estimation (Adam) optimizer was used to accelerate the convergence of the model, so as to improve the algorithm performance. The image reconstruction by the proposed method was carried out on Set5 and Set14 datasets. Experimental results show that the images reconstructed by the proposed method have higher Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR) and Structural SIMilarity index (SSIM), and the parameters of the proposed model are reduced to 1/26 of that of the depth Residual Channel Attention Network (RCAN) model.

Key words: super-resolution reconstruction, attention mechanism, Depthwise Separable Convolution (DSC), residual network, Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)