# Cross-receptive Focused Inference Network for Lightweight Image Super-Resolution

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.02796 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2207.02796/

## Key facts

- Cited by 16 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 56 of its 89 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 6 Jul 2022.

## Builds on (most cited first, 30 of 56)

- [Attention Is All You Need](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1706.03762/) (2017)
- [An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2010.11929/) (2020)
- [Swin Transformer: Hierarchical Vision Transformer using Shifted Windows](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.14030/) (2021)
- [End-to-End Object Detection with Transformers](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2005.12872/) (2020)
- [Squeeze-and-Excitation Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1709.01507/) (2017)
- [Categorical Reparameterization with Gumbel-Softmax](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1611.01144/) (2016)
- [Photo-Realistic Single Image Super-Resolution Using a Generative Adversarial Network](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1609.04802/) (2016)
- [SwinIR: Image Restoration Using Swin Transformer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2108.10257/) (2021)
- [Restormer: Efficient Transformer for High-Resolution Image Restoration](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2111.09881/) (2021)
- [Enhanced Deep Residual Networks for Single Image Super-Resolution](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1707.02921/) (2017)
- [Image Super-Resolution Using Very Deep Residual Channel Attention Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1807.02758/) (2018)
- [Image Super-Resolution Using Deep Convolutional Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1501.00092/) (2014)
- [Accurate Image Super-Resolution Using Very Deep Convolutional Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1511.04587/) (2015)
- [Pre-Trained Image Processing Transformer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2012.00364/) (2020)
- [Uformer: A General U-Shaped Transformer for Image Restoration](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2106.03106/) (2021)
- [Residual Dense Network for Image Super-Resolution](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1802.08797/) (2018)
- [Deformable ConvNets v2: More Deformable, Better Results](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1811.11168/) (2018)
- [Segmentation Transformer: Object-Contextual Representations for Semantic Segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1909.11065/) (2019)
- [Weight Normalization: A Simple Reparameterization to Accelerate Training of Deep Neural Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1602.07868/) (2016)
- [Activating More Pixels in Image Super-Resolution Transformer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2205.04437/) (2022)
- [Toward Real-World Single Image Super-Resolution: A New Benchmark and A New Model](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1904.00523/) (2019)
- [Making Convolutional Networks Shift-Invariant Again](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1904.11486/) (2019)
- [Dynamic Convolution: Attention over Convolution Kernels](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1912.03458/) (2019)
- [Sketch-based Manga Retrieval using Manga109 Dataset](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1510.04389/) (2015)
- [Dynamic Filter Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1605.09673/) (2016)
- [Feature Denoising for Improving Adversarial Robustness](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1812.03411/) (2018)
- [Fast, Accurate, and Lightweight Super-Resolution with Cascading Residual Network](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1803.08664/) (2018)
- [Component Divide-and-Conquer for Real-World Image Super-Resolution](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2008.01928/) (2020)
- [Lightweight Image Super-Resolution with Information Multi-distillation Network](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1909.11856/) (2019)
- [Deep Back-Projection Networks For Super-Resolution](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1803.02735/) (2018)

## Built on by (most cited first, 16 of 16)

- [PMQ-VE: Progressive Multi-Frame Quantization for Video Enhancement](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.12266/) (2025)
- [Efficient Image Super-Resolution with Feature Interaction Weighted Hybrid Network](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2212.14181/) (2022)
- [Dual-domain Modulation Network for Lightweight Image Super-Resolution](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2503.10047/) (2025)
- [Training-Free Model Ensemble for Single-Image Super-Resolution via Strong-Branch Compensation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2604.11564/) (2026)
- [PromptSR: Cascade Prompting for Lightweight Image Super-Resolution](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2507.04118/) (2025)
- [CLIP-SR: Collaborative Linguistic and Image Processing for Super-Resolution](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2412.11609/) (2024)
- [FourierSR: A Fourier Token-based Plugin for Efficient Image Super-Resolution](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2503.10043/) (2025)
- [FADPNet: Frequency-Aware Dual-Path Network for Face Super-Resolution](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2506.14121/) (2025)
- [Transformer-Progressive Mamba Network for Lightweight Image Super-Resolution](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2511.03232/) (2025)
- [Dual-domain Adaptation Networks for Realistic Image Super-resolution](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2511.17217/) (2025)
- [Image Super-Resolution Reconstruction Network based on Enhanced Swin Transformer via Alternating Aggregation of Local-Global Features](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2401.00241/) (2023)
- [Image Super-Resolution with Taylor Expansion Approximation and Large Field Reception](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2408.00470/) (2024)
- [Attention-Guided Multi-scale Interaction Network for Face Super-Resolution](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2409.00591/) (2024)
- [Efficient Star Distillation Attention Network for Lightweight Image Super-Resolution](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2506.12475/) (2025)
- [DeRainMamba: A Frequency-Aware State Space Model with Detail Enhancement for Image Deraining](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2510.06746/) (2025)
- [ReconMIL: Synergizing Latent Space Reconstruction with Bi-Stream Mamba for Whole Slide Image Analysis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2603.19925/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Recently, Transformer-based methods have shown impressive performance in single image super-resolution (SISR) tasks due to the ability of global feature extraction. However, the capabilities of Transformers that need to incorporate contextual information to extract features dynamically are neglected. To address this issue, we propose a lightweight Cross-receptive Focused Inference Network (CFIN) that consists of a cascade of CT Blocks mixed with CNN and Transformer. Specifically, in the CT block, we first propose a CNN-based Cross-Scale Information Aggregation Module (CIAM) to enable the model to better focus on potentially helpful information to improve the efficiency of the Transformer phase. Then, we design a novel Cross-receptive Field Guided Transformer (CFGT) to enable the selection of contextual information required for reconstruction by using a modulated convolutional kernel that understands the current semantic information and exploits the information interaction within different self-attention. Extensive experiments have shown that our proposed CFIN can effectively reconstruct images using contextual information, and it can strike a good balance between computational cost and model performance as an efficient model. Source codes will be available at https://github.com/IVIPLab/CFIN.