Face Super-Resolution via Triple-Attention Feature Fusion Network

Abstract

In recent years, compared with the traditional face super-resolution (SR) algorithm, the face SR based on deep neural network has shown strong performance. Among these methods, attention mechanism has been widely used in face SR because of its strong feature expression ability. However, the existing attention-based face SR methods can not fully mine the missing pixel information of low-resolution (LR) face images (structural prior). And they only consider a single attention mechanism to take advantage of the structure of the face. The use of multi-attention could help to enhance feature representation. In order to solve this problem, we first propose a new pixel attention mechanism, which can recover the structural details of lost pixels. Then, we design an attention fusion module to better integrate the different characteristics of triple attention. Experimental results on FFHQ data sets show that this method is superior to the existing face SR methods based on deep neural network.