Rethinking PRL: A Multiscale Progressively Residual Learning Network for Inverse Halftoning
Image inverse halftoning is a classic image restoration task, aiming to recover continuous-tone images from halftone images with only bilevel pixels. Because the halftone images lose much of the original image content, inverse halftoning is a classic ill-problem. Although existing inverse halftoning algorithms achieve good performance, their results lose image details and features. Therefore, it is still a challenge to recover high-quality continuous-tone images. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end multiscale progressively residual learning network (MSPRL), which has a UNet architecture and takes multiscale input images. To make full use of different input image information, we design a shallow feature extraction module to capture similar features between images of different scales. We systematically study the performance of different methods and compare them with our proposed method. In addition, we employ different training strategies to optimize the model, which is important for optimizing the training process and improving performance. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our MSPRL model obtains considerable performance gains in detail restoration.
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