Enhancing Historical Aerial Photographs: A New Approach Based on Non-Reference Metric and Photo Interpretation Elements
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Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Abdullah Harun İNCEKARA Tokat Gaziosmanpaşa Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Dursun Zafer Şeker İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Makale Türü Açık Erişim Özgün Makale (SSCI, AHCI, SCI, SCI-Exp dergilerinde yayınlanan tam makale)
Dergi Adı Sensors (Q2)
Dergi ISSN 1424-8220 Dergi Bilgileri (2025)
Dergi Tarandığı Indeksler SCI-Expanded
Makale Dili İngilizce Basım Tarihi 03-2025
Kabul Tarihi – Yayınlanma Tarihi 27-03-2025
Cilt / Sayı / Sayfa 25 / 7 / 1–17 DOI 10.3390/s25072126
Makale Linki https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/25/7/2126
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Özet
Deep learning-based super-resolution (SR) is an effective state-of-the-art technique for enhancing low-resolution images. This study explains a hierarchical dataset structure within the scope of enhancing grayscale historical aerial photographs with a basic SR model and relates it to non-reference image quality metric. The dataset was structured based on the hierarchy of photo interpretation elements. Images of bare land and forestry areas were evaluated as the primary category containing tone and color elements, images of residential areas as the secondary category containing shape and size elements, and images of farmland areas as the tertiary category containing pattern elements. Instead of training all images in all categories at once, which is the issue that any SR model with low number of parameters has difficulty handling, each category was trained separately. Test images containing the features of each category were enhanced separately, which means three enhanced images for one test image. The obtained images were divided into equal parts of 5 × 5 pixel size, and the final image was created by concatenating those that were determined to be of higher quality based on the Blind/Referenceless Image Spatial Quality Evaluator (BRISQUE) metric values. Subsequently, comparative analyses based on visual interpretation and reference-based image quality metrics proved that the approach to the dataset structure positively impacted the results.
Anahtar Kelimeler
BRISQUE | grayscale image | historical aerial photographs | image quality metric | super-resolution