TY - GEN
T1 - Dynamic Patch-Based Inference for High-Resolution Remote Sensing Image Super-Resolution
AU - Wang, Qingchun
AU - Zhang, Rui
AU - Pan, Yuqiao
AU - An, Shuai
AU - Jiang, Shikai
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2026 IEEE.
PY - 2026
Y1 - 2026
N2 - Remote sensing image super-resolution (SR) aims to restore sharp edges and fine texture details to improve the reliability of image interpretation and target recognition. However, applying uniform computational effort to an entire large-scale image is inefficient, since structurally complex regions require stronger reconstruction capability, whereas smooth background regions often suffer from redundant computation. To address this problem, this paper proposes The proposed method, a dynamic patch-based inference framework for high-resolution remote sensing image SR under computational constraints. The framework first adopts a quadtree-based adaptive partitioning strategy driven by local structural responses to generate content-aware variable-size patches. Then, a lightweight/high-performance dual-expert reconstruction scheme is employed, and an upgraded routing strategy allocates limited high-performance computation to regions with higher reconstruction benefit. To support large-scale inference with irregular patches, context-extended packaging, bucket-based batching, and Gaussian-weighted backfilling are further introduced to reduce boundary artifacts and maintain full-image spatial continuity. Experiments on the NAIP remote sensing dataset demonstrate that the proposed framework achieves a favorable trade-off between reconstruction quality and computational cost. Compared with uniform lightweight and uniform high-performance inference, The proposed method improves reconstruction quality with substantially lower additional FLOPs, while ablation results verify the effectiveness of adaptive partitioning, routing, context extension, and weighted fusion. These results indicate that the proposed method is suitable for resource-constrained remote sensing SR deployment.
AB - Remote sensing image super-resolution (SR) aims to restore sharp edges and fine texture details to improve the reliability of image interpretation and target recognition. However, applying uniform computational effort to an entire large-scale image is inefficient, since structurally complex regions require stronger reconstruction capability, whereas smooth background regions often suffer from redundant computation. To address this problem, this paper proposes The proposed method, a dynamic patch-based inference framework for high-resolution remote sensing image SR under computational constraints. The framework first adopts a quadtree-based adaptive partitioning strategy driven by local structural responses to generate content-aware variable-size patches. Then, a lightweight/high-performance dual-expert reconstruction scheme is employed, and an upgraded routing strategy allocates limited high-performance computation to regions with higher reconstruction benefit. To support large-scale inference with irregular patches, context-extended packaging, bucket-based batching, and Gaussian-weighted backfilling are further introduced to reduce boundary artifacts and maintain full-image spatial continuity. Experiments on the NAIP remote sensing dataset demonstrate that the proposed framework achieves a favorable trade-off between reconstruction quality and computational cost. Compared with uniform lightweight and uniform high-performance inference, The proposed method improves reconstruction quality with substantially lower additional FLOPs, while ablation results verify the effectiveness of adaptive partitioning, routing, context extension, and weighted fusion. These results indicate that the proposed method is suitable for resource-constrained remote sensing SR deployment.
KW - dual-branch network
KW - dynamic inference
KW - quadtree partitioning
KW - remote sensing
KW - super-resolution
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105043176820
U2 - 10.1109/CAIT70489.2026.11553931
DO - 10.1109/CAIT70489.2026.11553931
M3 - 会议稿件
AN - SCOPUS:105043176820
T3 - 2026 China Aerospace Information Technology Conference, CAIT 2026
BT - 2026 China Aerospace Information Technology Conference, CAIT 2026
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2026 China Aerospace Information Technology Conference, CAIT 2026
Y2 - 8 May 2026 through 10 May 2026
ER -