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The performance of traditional face recognition approaches is sharply reduced when encountered with a low-resolution (LR) probe face image. The basic idea of a face super-resolution (SR) is to desire a high-resolution (HR) face image from an observed LR one with the help of a set of training examples. In this paper, we propose a locality-constrained iterative matrix regression (LCIMR) model for face hallucination task and use the alternating direction method of multipliers to solve it. LCIMR attempts to directly use the image matrix to compute the representation coefficients to maintain the essential structural information. A locality constraint is also enforced to preserve the locality and the sparsity simultaneously. Moreover, LCIMR iteratively updates the locality similarities and reconstruction weights based on the result (the hallucinated HR patch) from previous iteration, giving rise to improved performance. Experimental results on the benchmark FEI face database show the superiority of the proposed method over some state-of-the-art algorithms.
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This work was partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant nos. 61502245 and 61772254, the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation under Grant no. 2016M600433, the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province under Grant no. BK20150849, Open Fund Project of Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Information Processing and Intelligent Control (Minjiang University) (No. MJUKF201717), Open Fund Project of Key Laboratory of Intelligent Perception and Systems for High-Dimensional Information of Ministry of Education (Nanjing University of Science and Technology) (No. JYB201709).
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Gao, G., Pang, H., Wang, C., Li, Z., Yue, D. (2017). Locality-Constrained Iterative Matrix Regression for Robust Face Hallucination. In: Liu, D., Xie, S., Li, Y., Zhao, D., El-Alfy, ES. (eds) Neural Information Processing. ICONIP 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10636. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70090-8_62
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