Research Article

Efficient and Effective Total Variation Image Super-Resolution: A Preconditioned Operator Splitting Approach

Table 1

The PSNR, ReErr, number of iterations, and computational times of the reconstructed images using three methods. The numbers in the bracket in the “Iterations” row refer to the total number of inner conjugate gradient iterations.

ExperimentsFigure 2(a)Figure 3(a)Figure 4(a)Figure 5(a)Figure 6(a)Figure 7(a)Figure 8(a)

LDFP methodPSNR (dB)27.413727.196825.771225.688124.898526.361821.9450
ReErr0.0056 0.0059 0.0094 0.00960.0115 0.0071 0.0164
Iterations46 (20)44 (20)49 (20)49 (20) 43 (20)49 (20) 44 (20)
Time(s)25.515624.531327.312527.296930.125034.203125.1406

AMM methodPSNR (dB)28.503728.003526.350826.124724.368026.394722.0199
ReErr 0.00440.00490.00820.00870.01300.00710.0161
Iterations189 (7)176 (7)239 (7)228 (7)209 (7)184 (7)131 (7)
Time(s)20.390618.953125.875024.625079.062569.593814.4531

OSM methodPSNR28.882028.296826.564026.308624.878226.532222.0065
ReErr0.00400.00460.00790.00830.01160.00690.0162
Iterations9093100101194183 58
Time(s)5.20315.34385.7656 5.843818.953117.82813.3750