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Additionally, the results of the existing methods still have serious artifacts and edge blurring. To address these issues, we proposed an Edge-enhanced with Feedback Attention Network for image super-resolution (EFANSR), which comprises three parts. The first part is an SR reconstruction network, which adaptively learns the features of different inputs by integrating channel attention and spatial attention blocks to achieve full utilization of the features. We also introduced feedback mechanism to feed high-level information back to the input and fine-tune the input in the dense spatial and channel attention block. The second part is the edge enhancement network, which obtains a sharp edge through adaptive edge enhancement processing on the output of the first SR network. The final part merges the outputs of the first two parts to obtain the final edge-enhanced SR image. Experimental results show that our method achieves performance comparable to the state-of-the-art methods with lower complexity.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s21062064","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,3,15]],"date-time":"2021-03-15T22:16:54Z","timestamp":1615846614000},"page":"2064","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Edge-Enhanced with Feedback Attention Network for Image Super-Resolution"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"21","author":[{"given":"Chunmei","family":"Fu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Microelectronics and Communication Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yong","family":"Yin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Microelectronics and Communication Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,3,15]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2226","DOI":"10.1109\/TIP.2006.877407","article-title":"An Edge-guided Image Interpolation Algorithm via Directional Filtering and Data Fusion","volume":"15","author":"Zhang","year":"2006","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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