Suppressing Uncertainties in Degradation Estimation for Blind Super-Resolution
The problem of blind image super-resolution aims to recover high-resolution (HR) images from low-resolution (LR) images with unknown degradation modes. Most existing methods model the image degradation process using blur kernels. However, this explicit modeling approach struggles to cover the complex and varied degradation processes encountered in the real world, such as high-order combinations of JPEG compression, blur, and noise. Implicit modeling for the degradation process can effectively overcome this issue, but a key challenge of implicit modeling is the lack of accurate ground truth labels for the degradation process to conduct supervised training. To overcome this limitations inherent in implicit modeling, we propose an \textbf{U}ncertainty-based degradation representation for blind \textbf{S}uper-\textbf{R}esolution framework (\textbf{USR}). By suppressing the uncertainty of local degradation representations in images, USR facilitated self-supervised learning of degradation representations. The USR consists of two components: Adaptive Uncertainty-Aware Degradation Extraction (AUDE) and a feature extraction network composed of Variable Depth Dynamic Convolution (VDDC) blocks. To extract Uncertainty-based Degradation Representation from LR images, the AUDE utilizes the Self-supervised Uncertainty Contrast module with Uncertainty Suppression Loss to suppress the inherent model uncertainty of the Degradation Extractor. Furthermore, VDDC block integrates degradation information through dynamic convolution. Rhe VDDC also employs an Adaptive Intensity Scaling operation that adaptively adjusts the degradation representation according to the network hierarchy, thereby facilitating the effective integration of degradation information. Quantitative and qualitative experiments affirm the superiority of our approach.
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