Remote sensing image super-resolution using multi-scale convolutional sparse coding network

Abstract

With the development of convolutional neural networks, impressive success has been achieved in remote sensing image super-resolution. However, the performance of super-resolution reconstruction is unsatisfactory due to the lack of details in remote sensing images when compared to natural images. Therefore, this paper presents a novel multiscale convolutional sparse coding network (MCSCN) to carry out the remote sensing images SR reconstruction with rich details. The MCSCN, which consists of a multiscale convolutional sparse coding module (MCSCM) with dictionary convolution units, can improve the extraction of high frequency features. We can obtain more plentiful feature information by combining multiple sizes of sparse features. Finally, a layer based on sub-pixel convolution that combines global and local features takes as the reconstruction block. The experimental results show that the MCSCN gains an advantage over several existing state-of-the-art methods in terms of peak signal-to-noise ratio and structural similarity.