[How to get SR image by spatially variant estimated blur kernels]
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Hi, Thank you for your excellent and interesting work! I'm not so clear about the process after kernels estimation during SR reconstruction after reading your paper. Could you please explain?
A line blind SR works take a two-step strategy: kernel estimation + non-blind SR.
Step1: estimating kernel by MANet
Step2: Given estimated kernel and the LR image, using a non-blind SR model RRDB-SFT to reconstruct the HR image.
See Fig.1 in supplementary for an illustration.
@JingyunLiang Thanks，got it!
A line blind SR works take a two-step strategy: kernel estimation + non-blind SR.
Step1: estimating kernel by MANet
Step2: Given estimated kernel and the LR image, using a non-blind SR model RRDB-SFT to reconstruct the HR image.
See Fig.1 in supplementary for an illustration.
Did this two-step strategy implicitly mean spatially invariant blur kernel estimation(estimate a kernel for the whole input image)?
No. It depends on the non-blind SR model. For example, ZSSR may only take one kernel (i.e., spatially invariant) as input, while SRMD can take spatially variant kernel (each pixel has a kernel) as input. Note that SRMD can also deal with spatially invariant kernel (a special case) by expanding the same kernel to all positions, as what they did in their paper.
@JingyunLiang Well, what's the case of RRDB-SFT ?
RRDB-SFT is basically based on the idea of SRMD, so it can deal with spatially variant kernel. This is why we choose such a model.
@JingyunLiang Thanks for the replying!
