Efficient Image Super-Resolution via Self-Calibrated Feature Fuse

Recently, many super-resolution reconstruction (SR) feedforward networks based on deep learning have been proposed. These networks enable the reconstructed images to achieve convincing results. However, due to a large amount of computation and parameters, SR technology is greatly limited in devices with limited computing power. To trade-off the network performance and network parameters. In this paper, we propose the efficient image super-resolution network via Self-Calibrated Feature Fuse, named SCFFN, by constructing the self-calibrated feature fuse block (SCFFB). Specifically, to recover the high-frequency detail information of the image as much as possible, we propose SCFFB by self-transformation and self-fusion of features. In addition, to accelerate the network training while reducing the computational complexity of the network, we employ an attention mechanism to elaborate the reconstruction part of the network, called U-SCA. Compared with the existing transposed convolution, it can greatly reduce the computation burden of the network without reducing the reconstruction effect. We have conducted full quantitative and qualitative experiments on public datasets, and the experimental results show that the network achieves comparable performance to other networks, while we only need fewer parameters and computational resources.