Super-Resolution using Neural Networks Based on the Optimal Recovery Theory

An optimal recovery based neural-network super resolution algorithm is developed. The proposed method is computationally less expensive and outputs images with high subjective quality, compared with previous neural-network or optimal recovery algorithms. It is evaluated on classical SR test images with both generic and specialized training sets, and compared with other state-of-the-art methods. Results show that our algorithm is among the state-of-the-art, both in quality and efficiency.