The invention relates to a joint sparse representation and
deep learning-based image super resolution method and a joint sparse representation and
deep learning-based image super resolution
system. The method includes the following steps that: resolution reduction is performed on an original high-resolution image, so that a low-resolution image of which the size is the same as the original high-resolution image, and the difference value part of the original high-resolution image and the low-resolution image is obtained; a low-resolution image dictionary, a difference value image dictionary and corresponding sparse representation coefficients are obtained; a
deep learning network with root-mean-
square error adopted as a cost function is constructed, and network parameters are optimized iteratively, so that the cost function can be minimum, a trained deep
learning network can be obtained; and the
sparse coefficient of the low-resolution image, which is adopted as a test part, is inputted into the deep
learning network, when error is smaller than a given threshold value, a corresponding high-resolution image can be reconstructed according to the low-resolution image of which the resolution is to be improved. According to the method and
system of the invention, defects of an existing method according to which a joint dictionary training mode is utilized to make a high-resolution image and a low-resolution
image share a sparse representation coefficient can be eliminated, and deep learning is utilized to fully learn the mapping relationship between the low-resolution image sparse representation coefficient and the difference value image sparse representation coefficient, and therefore, a high-resolution reconstruction result with higher precision can be obtained.