Spherical Pseudo-Cylindrical Representation for Omnidirectional Image Super-resolution
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Abstract
Omnidirectional images have attracted significant attention in recent years due to the rapid development of virtual reality technologies. Equirectangular projection (ERP), a naive form to store and transfer omnidirectional images, however, is not easy to be handled by existing two-dimensional (2D) image super-resolution (SR) methods since its inhomogeneous distributed sampling density and distortion across latitude. In this paper, we make one of the first attempts to design a spherical pseudo-cylindrical representation, which not only can let pixels at different latitudes adaptively adopt the best distinct sampling density but also is model-agnostic to most off-the-shelf SR methods to improve their performances. Specifically, we first upsample each latitude of the input ERP image and design a computationally tractable optimization algorithm to adaptively obtain a (sub)-optimal sampling density for each latitude of the ERP image. Then, for the distortion of ERP, we propose a new viewport-based training loss based on the original 3D sphere format of the omnidirectional image since the original format does not contain distortion. Finally, a simple yet effective recursive progressive omnidirectional SR network is designed to demonstrate the feasibility of our idea. The experimental results on public datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method as well as the consistently superior performance of our method over most state-of-the-art methods quantitatively and qualitatively.
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| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.013 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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