Modern displays are steadily increasing in resolution, though sensors can be prohibitively expensive to capture images and video at such high resolutions. Image super-resolution, or upsampling, has recently been applied to alleviate these shortcomings. There exist many deep learning image super-resolution models that reconstruct very high quality high-resolution images from a low-resolution base. However, most of these models use a tremendous amount of parameters, requiring a large amount of free memory and computational power to super resolve a single image. As a result, many modern super-resolution models are not entirely practical due to the computational or memory usage requirements. We propose a highly efficient, small super-resolution model utilizing the sub-pixel convolution block for single image super-resolution.
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