An example image super-resolution algorithm based on modified k-means with hybrid particle swarm optimization

This paper presents a novel example-based super-resolution (SR) algorithm with improved k-means cluster. In this algorithm, genetic k-means (GKM) with hybrid particle swarm optimization (HPSO) is employed to improve the reconstruction of high-resolution (HR) images, and a pre-processing of classification in frequency is used to accelerate the procedure. Self-redundancy across different scales of a natural image is also utilized to build attached training set to expand example-based information. Meanwhile, a reconstruction algorithm based on hybrid supervise locally linear embedding (HSLLE) is proposed which uses training sets, high-resolution images and self-redundancy across different scales of a natural image. Experimental results show that patches are classified rapidly in training set processing session and the runtime of reconstruction is half of traditional algorithm at least in super-resolution session. And clustering and attached training set lead to a better recovery of low-resolution (LR) image.