Abstract: This paper combines the popular multi-scale convolution and channel attention mechanism, and proposes a novel convolutional neural network(CNN) structure, namely the multi-scale CNN under attention mechanism. A large number of residual structures are added to the proposed network structure, which deepens the depth of the network. The utilization of multi-scale convolution enables the network to extract richer information from pictures. The introduction of the attention mechanism enables the network to have greater weight in processing high-frequency information. Experimental results show that the multi-scale CNN under attention mechanism has achieved good performance in image super-resolution(SR) reconstruction, and the effect of image detail restoration is satisfactory.
Keywords: super-resolution (SR); deep learning; convolutional neural network (CNN); attention mechanism; multi-scale