DAT_2_X2

DAT_2_X3

Official 4x Pretrain of Dual Aggregation Transformer for Image Super-Resolution DAT

Transformer has recently gained considerable popularity in low-level vision tasks, including image super-resolution (SR). These networks utilize self-attention along different dimensions, spatial or channel, and achieve impressive performance. This inspires us to combine the two dimensions in Transformer for a more powerful representation capability. Based on the above idea, we propose a novel Transformer model, Dual Aggregation Transformer (DAT), for image SR. Our DAT aggregates features across spatial and channel dimensions, in the inter-block and intra-block dual manner. Specifically, we alternately apply spatial and channel self-attention in consecutive Transformer blocks. The alternate strategy enables DAT to capture the global context and realize inter-block feature aggregation. Furthermore, we propose the adaptive interaction module (AIM) and the spatial-gate feed-forward network (SGFN) to achieve intra-block feature aggregation. AIM complements two self-attention mechanisms from corresponding dimensions. Meanwhile, SGFN introduces additional non-linear spatial information in the feed-forward network. Extensive experiments show that our DAT surpasses current methods.

DAT_x4

Official DAT2 4x Pretrain of Dual Aggregation Transformer for Image Super-Resolution DAT

Transformer has recently gained considerable popularity in low-level vision tasks, including image super-resolution (SR). These networks utilize self-attention along different dimensions, spatial or channel, and achieve impressive performance. This inspires us to combine the two dimensions in Transformer for a more powerful representation capability. Based on the above idea, we propose a novel Transformer model, Dual Aggregation Transformer (DAT), for image SR. Our DAT aggregates features across spatial and channel dimensions, in the inter-block and intra-block dual manner. Specifically, we alternately apply spatial and channel self-attention in consecutive Transformer blocks. The alternate strategy enables DAT to capture the global context and realize inter-block feature aggregation. Furthermore, we propose the adaptive interaction module (AIM) and the spatial-gate feed-forward network (SGFN) to achieve intra-block feature aggregation. AIM complements two self-attention mechanisms from corresponding dimensions. Meanwhile, SGFN introduces additional non-linear spatial information in the feed-forward network. Extensive experiments show that our DAT surpasses current methods.

DAT_2_x4

RGT x4

Official 4x rgt-s pretrain from [RGT](https://github.com/zhengchen1999/RGT)

# Recursive Generalization Transformer for Image Super-Resolution

[Zheng Chen](https://zhengchen1999.github.io/), [Yulun Zhang](http://yulunzhang.com/), [Jinjin Gu](https://www.jasongt.com/), [Linghe Kong](https://www.cs.sjtu.edu.cn/~linghe.kong/), and [Xiaokang Yang](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=yDEavdMAAAAJ), "Recursive Generalization Transformer for Image Super-Resolution", ICLR, 2024

[[paper](https://openreview.net/pdf?id=owziuM1nsR)] [[arXiv](https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.06373)] [[supplementary material](https://openreview.net/attachment?id=owziuM1nsR&name=supplementary_material)] [[visual results](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1TWIl66LPtojEbnlUr-s7qkUuTd7RF7Hp?usp=sharing)] [[pretrained models](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1UNn5LvnfQAi6eHAHz-mTYWu8vCJs5kwu?usp=sharing)]

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> **Abstract:** Transformer architectures have exhibited remarkable performance in image superresolution (SR). Since the quadratic computational complexity of the selfattention (SA) in Transformer, existing methods tend to adopt SA in a local region to reduce overheads. However, the local design restricts the global context exploitation, which is crucial for accurate image reconstruction. In this work, we propose the Recursive Generalization Transformer (RGT) for image SR, which can capture global spatial information and is suitable for high-resolution images. Specifically, we propose the recursive-generalization self-attention (RG-SA). It recursively aggregates input features into representative feature maps, and then utilizes cross-attention to extract global information. Meanwhile, the channel dimensions of attention matrices ($query$, $key$, and $value$) are further scaled to mitigate the redundancy in the channel domain. Furthermore, we combine the RG-SA with local self-attention to enhance the exploitation of the global context, and propose the hybrid adaptive integration (HAI) for module integration. The HAI allows the direct and effective fusion between features at different levels (local or global). Extensive experiments demonstrate that our RGT outperforms recent state-of-the-art methods quantitatively and qualitatively.
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Zheng Chen's Models