A bidirectional flow joint Sobolev gradient for image interpolation (Q473836)

Summary: An energy functional with bidirectional flow is presented to sharpen image by reducing its edge width, which performs a forward diffusion in brighter lateral on edge ramp and backward diffusion that proceeds in darker lateral. We first consider the diffusion equations as \(L_2\) gradient flows on integral functionals and then modify the inner product from \(L_2\) to a Sobolev inner product. The experimental results demonstrate that our model efficiently reconstructs the real image, leading to a natural interpolation with reduced blurring, staircase artifacts and preserving better the texture features of image.