Adaptive Bidirectional Flow for Image Interpolation and Enhancement

Main Authors: Shujun Fu, Qiuqi Ruan, Wenqia Wang
Format: Article
Bahasa: eng
Terbitan: , 2008
Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/1334399
Daftar Isi:
  • Image interpolation is a common problem in imaging applications. However, most interpolation algorithms in existence suffer visually the effects of blurred edges and jagged artifacts in the image to some extent. This paper presents an adaptive feature preserving bidirectional flow process, where an inverse diffusion is performed to sharpen edges along the normal directions to the isophote lines (edges), while a normal diffusion is done to remove artifacts (“jaggies") along the tangent directions. In order to preserve image features such as edges, corners and textures, the nonlinear diffusion coefficients are locally adjusted according to the directional derivatives of the image. Experimental results on synthetic images and nature images demonstrate that our interpolation algorithm substantially improves the subjective quality of the interpolated images over conventional interpolations.