Video super-resolution using an adaptive superpixel-guided auto-regressive model

This paper proposes a video super-resolution method based on an adaptive superpixel-guided auto-regressive (AR) model. Key-frames are automatically selected and super-resolved by a sparse regression method. Non-key-frames are super-resolved by exploiting the spatio-temporal correlations: the temporal correlation is exploited by an optical flow method while the spatial correlation is modeled by a superpixel-guided AR model. Experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art methods in terms of both subjective visual quality and objective peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR). The proposed method requires less computation and is suitable for practical applications.