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Recently, several models based on deep convolutional neural network (CNN) have gained significant performance for image super-resolution (SR), while extensive memory consumption and computation overhead hinder practical applications. For this purpose, we present a lightweight network that automatically searches dense connection (ASDCN) for image super-resolution (SR), which effectively reduces redundancy in dense connection and focuses on more valuable features. We employ neural architecture search (NAS) to model the searching of dense connections. Qualitative and quantitative experiments on five public datasets show that our derived model achieves superior performance over the state-of-the-art models.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/e24040489","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,3,31]],"date-time":"2022-03-31T21:33:03Z","timestamp":1648762383000},"page":"489","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Automatic Search Dense Connection Module for Super-Resolution"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"24","author":[{"given":"Huaijuan","family":"Zang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Knowledge Engineering with Big Data, Ministry of Education, School of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230601, China"}]},{"given":"Guoan","family":"Cheng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Knowledge Engineering with Big Data, Ministry of Education, School of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230601, China"}]},{"given":"Zhipeng","family":"Duan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Knowledge Engineering with Big Data, Ministry of Education, School of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230601, China"}]},{"given":"Ying","family":"Zhao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Knowledge Engineering with Big Data, Ministry of Education, School of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230601, China"}]},{"given":"Shu","family":"Zhan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Knowledge Engineering with Big Data, Ministry of Education, School of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230601, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,3,31]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Guo, T., Dai, T., Liu, L., Zhu, Z., and Xia, S.-T. 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