Deep convolutional neural networks with strong expressive ability have achieved impressive performances in single-image super-resolution algorithms. However, excessive convolutions usually consume high computational cost, which limits the application of super-resolution technology in low computing power devices. Besides, super-resolution of arbitrary scale factor has been ignored for a long time. Most previous researchers have trained a specific network model separately for each factor, and taken the super-resolution of several integer scale factors into consideration. In this paper, we put forward a multi-scale factor network (MFN), which dynamically predicts the weights of the upscale filter by taking the scale factor as input, and generates HR images with corresponding scale factors from the weights. This method is suitable for arbitrary scale factors (integer or non-integer). In addition, we use an information distillation structure to gradually extract multi-scale spatial features. Extensive experiments suggest that the proposed method performs favorably against the state-of-the-art SR algorithms in term of visual quality, PSNR/SSIM evaluation indicators, and model parameters.
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