low resolution images to high resolution images

information technology

Image Super resolution is a widely-studied problem in computer vision, where the objective is to convert a lowresolution image to a high resolution image. Conventional methods for achieving super-resolution such as image priors, interpolation, sparse coding require a lot of pre/post processing and optimization. Recently, deep learning methods such as convolutional neural networks and generative adversarial networks are being used to perform super-resolution with results competitive to the state of the art but none of them have been used on microscopy images. In this thesis, a generative adversarial network, mSRGAN, is proposed for super resolution with a perceptual loss function consisting of a adversarial loss, mean squared error and content loss. The objective of our implementation is to learn an end to end mapping between the low / high resolution images and optimize the upscaled image for quantitative metrics as well as perceptual quality. We then compare our results with the current state of the art methods in super resolution, conduct a proof of concept segmentation study to show that super resolved images can be used as a effective pre processing step before segmentation and validate the findings statistically.In most digital imaging applications, high-resolution images are preferred and often required to accomplish tasks. Image super-resolution (SR) is a widely-studied problem in computer vision, where the objective is to generate one or more highresolution images from one or more low-resolution images. SR algorithm aims to produce details finer than the sampling grid of a given imaging device by increasing the number of pixels per unit area in an image.

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