To improve the performance of image super-resolution reconstruction, this paper optimizes the classical SRGAN model architecture. The original SRResNet is replaced with the EDSR network as the generator, which effectively enhances the ability to restore image details. To address the issue of insufficient multi-scale feature extraction in SRGAN during image reconstruction, an LSK attention mechanism is introduced into the generator. By fusing features from different receptive fields through parallel multi-scale convolution kernels, the model improves its ability to capture key details. To mitigate the instability and overfitting problems in the discriminator training, the Mish activation function is used instead of LeakyReLU to improve gradient flow, and a Dropout layer is introduced to enhance the discriminator’s generalization ability, preventing overfitting to the generator. Additionally, a staged training strategy is employed during adversarial training. Experimental results show that the improved model effectively enhances image reconstruction quality while maintaining low complexity. The generated results exhibit clearer details and more natural visual effects. On the public datasets Set5, Set14, and BSD100, compared to the original SRGAN, the PSNR and SSIM metrics improved by 13.4% and 5.9%, 9.9% and 6.0%, and 6.8% and 5.8%, respectively, significantly enhancing the reconstruction of super-resolution images, achieving more refined and realistic image quality improvement. The model also demonstrates stronger generalization ability on complex cross-domain data, such as remote sensing images and medical images. The improved model achieves higher-quality image reconstruction and more natural visual effects while maintaining moderate computational overhead, validating the effectiveness of the proposed improvements.
Zhang et al. (Thu,) studied this question.