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In this paper, we propose a novel super resolution framework based on blur kernel estimation and dual attention mechanism. Our network learns the internal relations from the input image itself, thus the network can quickly adapt to any input image. We add the blur kernel estimation structure into the network, correcting the inaccurate blur kernel to generate high quality images. Meanwhile, we propose a dual attention mechanism to restore the texture details of the image, adaptively adjusting the features of the image by considering the interdependencies both in channel and spatial. The combination of blur kernel estimation and attention mechanism makes our network perform well for complex blur images in practice. Extensive experiments show that our method (KASR) achieves promising accuracy and visual improvements against most existing methods.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/info11110508","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,10,29]],"date-time":"2020-10-29T21:21:00Z","timestamp":1604006460000},"page":"508","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Super Resolution with Kernel Estimation and Dual Attention Mechanism"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"given":"Huan","family":"Liang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Motion Picture Special Effects, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200072, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Youdong","family":"Ding","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Motion Picture Special Effects, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200072, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Fei","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Motion Picture Special Effects, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200072, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yuzhen","family":"Gao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Motion Picture Special Effects, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200072, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Xiaofeng","family":"Qiu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Motion Picture Special Effects, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200072, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,10,29]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"25","DOI":"10.1023\/A:1026501619075","article-title":"Learning Low-Level Vision","volume":"40","author":"Freeman","year":"2000","journal-title":"Int. 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