Disentangled Feature Distillation for Light Field Super-Resolution with Degradations

Light field (LF) super-resolution has achieved remarkable results with the assumption of only downsampling. However, real-world LF scenes contain multiple degradation effects, which makes it difficult for existing methods to deal with hybrid distortions. In this paper, we propose a disentangled feature distillation framework for LF super-resolution with degradations. To reduce the learning difficulty, we propose a feature disentanglement mechanism to split the mixed reconstruction for both super-resolution and denoising into two single task learning processes. We also propose a feature enhancement strategy via knowledge distillation to transfer prior feature of each single reconstruction to our task of mixed reconstruction. Finally, the separate restored representations are fused to reconstruct a clean high-resolution LF. Experiments demonstrate the superior performance of our framework for different scale factors and noise levels. Additionally, our approach can also obtain excellent performance for joint super-resolution and deblurring, showing its gencralization for practical LF super-resolution applications.