Abstract
Although remote sensing image arbitrary-scale super-resolution (RSI-ASSR) methods support reconstruction at arbitrary or continuous scales, they predominantly condition on the relative scale factor and have not sufficiently investigated the absolute spatial resolution itself as a reconstruction prior, thereby disregarding the inherent spatial context of objects, which frequently leads to spatial-related distortions and compromised performance in downstream remote sensing applications. To address these challenges, we introduce SpatialSR, a SRe-centric arbitrary-scale RSISR method that leverages the spatial resolution (SRe) of remote sensing images (RSI) as an essential prior for super-resolution reconstruction. Distinct from existing SR methods, SpatialSR aims to restore high-resolution remote sensing images with a target SRe (typically set to 0.1m/pixel to align with the metadata of commonly used downstream task datasets). Specifically, we design a Spatial Resolution Estimation Module (SREM) to estimate the SRe of low-resolution (LR) images, thereby dynamically determining the required arbitrary scaling factor. Next, we employ a pretrained SRe-to-image diffusion model to extract SRe-specified texture-style codes, which are further incorporated into a carefully designed Resolution-aware Style Consistency Module (RSCM) to constrain the SRe-aware texture consistency of reconstructed images. Furthermore, to overcome the high computational expense inherent in diffusion-based SR methods, we wrap the iterative diffusion process as a Trajectory Consistency (TC) loss, which enables comparable reconstructed texture quality of the generative model in SpatialSR within a single step. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed SpatialSR achieves state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance on commonly used RSISR and downstream (image classification and segmentation tasks) datasets.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.13046
