Table 1 Classical algorithms for image super-resolution and their characteristics.

From: A general lightweight image super-resolution with sharpening enhancement and double attention network

 

Methods

Published

Methods

Strength

Classical algorithm

SAN [5]

CVPR (2019)

Attention mechanism

High reconstruction quality

DRN [10]

CVPR (2020)

Dual regression network

DeFiAN [9]

IEEE Trans. Image Process. (2021)

Improved Hessian filter

SwinIR [13]

CVPR (2021)

Transformer architecture

DAT [7]

ICCV (2023)

Improved Transformer

Lightweight algorithm

PAN [36]

ECCVW (2020)

Pixel attention

Low model complexity

RFDN [18]

ECCV (2020)

Feature distillation connection

MRDN [41]

Expert Syst. Appl. (2022)

Residual distillation

MLRN [44]

CVPR (2023)

Mixer local residual

VLESR [7]

Expert Syst. Appl. (2023)

Model pruning