Global Information Edge Augmentation Network for Remote Sensing Image Continuous Super-Resolution

The continuous-scale super-resolution (SR) method for remote sensing (RS) images has the potential to achieve flexible scale SR with a single network, representing a significant research area in the field of RS. However, the majority of prevailing methods learn features from localization, thereby neglecting the global semantic coherence of RS images. This results in unbalanced SR outcomes. Furthermore, the optimization strategy based on the multilayer perceptron (MLP) utilized in the implicit neural representation (INR) method results in blurred reconstructed image edges. To address these issues, a novel continuous-scale SR method for RS images, a global information edge augmentation network (GIEAN), is proposed. Initially, the global state space model (GSSM) aggregates the global information of the image from diverse perspectives and learns the contextual interactions at disparate locations of the image globally. Subsequently, the dual edge enhancement module (DEEM) learns the image body and edges independently through the main branch and edge branch, respectively, with the objective of enhancing the edge component of the SR results. Extensive experimental evaluation on the UCMerced dataset demonstrates the superiority of GIEAN over existing continuous-scale SR techniques.