Kernel-aware dual-domain adaptive network: enhancing blind super-resolution performance
摘要
Blind super-resolution (SR) aims to reconstruct high-resolution images from low-resolution inputs with unknown degradations. Traditional methods often struggle with complex and unknown degradations, leading to artifacts and detail distortion. To address this, we propose KADANet, a kernel-aware dual-domain adaptive network, which leverages the complementary strengths of frequency details and spatial structures. KADANet consists of a two-stage architecture: a kernel-aware feature extractor (KAFE) that transfers blur kernel estimation into the low-resolution space, and a frequency spatial adaptive enhancement (FSAE) network. The FSAE network incorporates a dynamic Fourier-Mamba block to integrate global frequency and spatial features, enhancing long-range dependencies. Our method demonstrates improved performance on both synthetic and real-world images, effectively adapting well to various degradation models. Extensive experiments show that KADANet achieves superior reconstruction quality, with PSNR improvements of up to 0.08 dB on the Urban100 dataset for scale factor 4, compared to state-of-the-art methods. The source code is available at https://github.com/Lucky-lili1/KADANet/tree/main.