  Recent research on super-resolution has progressed with the development of
deep convolutional neural networks (DCNN). In particular, residual learning
techniques exhibit improved performance. In this paper, we develop an enhanced
deep super-resolution network (EDSR) with performance exceeding those of
current state-of-the-art SR methods. The significant performance improvement of
our model is due to optimization by removing unnecessary modules in
conventional residual networks. The performance is further improved by
expanding the model size while we stabilize the training procedure. We also
propose a new multi-scale deep super-resolution system (MDSR) and training
method, which can reconstruct high-resolution images of different upscaling
factors in a single model. The proposed methods show superior performance over
the state-of-the-art methods on benchmark datasets and prove its excellence by
winning the NTIRE2017 Super-Resolution Challenge.

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition