# Temporal Consistency Learning of inter-frames for Video Super-Resolution

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.01639 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2211.01639/

## Key facts

- Cited by 16 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 35 of its 55 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 3 Nov 2022.

## Builds on (most cited first, 30 of 35)

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- [Deformable Convolutional Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1703.06211/) (2017)
- [Convolutional LSTM Network: A Machine Learning Approach for Precipitation Nowcasting](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1506.04214/) (2015)
- [Image Super-Resolution Using Deep Convolutional Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1501.00092/) (2014)
- [Real-Time Single Image and Video Super-Resolution Using an Efficient Sub-Pixel Convolutional Neural Network](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1609.05158/) (2016)
- [Dual Attention Network for Scene Segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1809.02983/) (2018)
- [PWC-Net: CNNs for Optical Flow Using Pyramid, Warping, and Cost Volume](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1709.02371/) (2017)
- [Video Enhancement with Task-Oriented Flow](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1711.09078/) (2017)
- [EDVR: Video Restoration with Enhanced Deformable Convolutional Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1905.02716/) (2019)
- [Deep Laplacian Pyramid Networks for Fast and Accurate Super-Resolution](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1704.03915/) (2017)
- [Optical Flow Estimation using a Spatial Pyramid Network](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1611.00850/) (2016)
- [BasicVSR++: Improving Video Super-Resolution with Enhanced Propagation and Alignment](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2104.13371/) (2021)
- [BasicVSR: The Search for Essential Components in Video Super-Resolution and Beyond](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2012.02181/) (2020)
- [TDAN: Temporally Deformable Alignment Network for Video Super-Resolution](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1812.02898/) (2018)
- [Frame-Recurrent Video Super-Resolution](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1801.04590/) (2018)
- [Real-Time Video Super-Resolution with Spatio-Temporal Networks and Motion Compensation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1611.05250/) (2016)
- [Detail-revealing Deep Video Super-resolution](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1704.02738/) (2017)
- [Recurrent Back-Projection Network for Video Super-Resolution](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1903.10128/) (2019)
- [Video Super-Resolution Transformer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2106.06847/) (2021)
- [Video Super-Resolution with Recurrent Structure-Detail Network](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2008.00455/) (2020)
- [MuCAN: Multi-Correspondence Aggregation Network for Video Super-Resolution](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2007.11803/) (2020)
- [Video Super-resolution with Temporal Group Attention](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2007.10595/) (2020)
- [Understanding Deformable Alignment in Video Super-Resolution](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2009.07265/) (2020)
- [Blind Video Temporal Consistency via Deep Video Prior](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2010.11838/) (2020)
- [Efficient Video Super-Resolution through Recurrent Latent Space Propagation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1909.08080/) (2019)
- [Learning Trajectory-Aware Transformer for Video Super-Resolution](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2204.04216/) (2022)
- [Revisiting Temporal Modeling for Video Super-resolution](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2008.05765/) (2020)

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- [Local-Global Temporal Difference Learning for Satellite Video Super-Resolution](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2304.04421/) (2023)
- [Space-Time Video Super-resolution with Neural Operator](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2404.06036/) (2024)
- [SeeClear: Semantic Distillation Enhances Pixel Condensation for Video Super-Resolution](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2410.05799/) (2024)
- [MedVSR: Medical Video Super-Resolution with Cross State-Space Propagation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2509.21265/) (2025)
- [Spatio-Temporal Distortion Aware Omnidirectional Video Super-Resolution](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2410.11506/) (2024)
- [FCVSR: A Frequency-aware Method for Compressed Video Super-Resolution](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2502.06431/) (2025)
- [Spatial Degradation-Aware and Temporal Consistent Diffusion Model for Compressed Video Super-Resolution](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2502.07381/) (2025)
- [Few-Shot Learning in Video and 3D Object Detection: A Survey](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2507.17079/) (2025)
- [QD-PCQA: Quality-Aware Domain Adaptation for Point Cloud Quality Assessment](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2603.03726/) (2026)
- [Trajectory-aware Shifted State Space Models for Online Video Super-Resolution](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2508.10453/) (2025)
- [Generalized Deep Multi-view Clustering via Causal Learning with Partially Aligned Cross-view Correspondence](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2509.16022/) (2025)
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- [TALENT: Target-aware Efficient Tuning for Referring Image Segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2604.00609/) (2026)
- [The Essence of Balance for Self-Improving Agents in Vision-and-Language Navigation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2604.19064/) (2026)
- [EPS: Efficient Patch Sampling for Video Overfitting in Deep Super-Resolution Model Training](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2411.16312/) (2024)
- [WaterWave: Bridging Underwater Image Enhancement into Video Streams via Wavelet-based Temporal Consistency Field](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2512.05492/) (2025)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Video super-resolution (VSR) is a task that aims to reconstruct high-resolution (HR) frames from the low-resolution (LR) reference frame and multiple neighboring frames. The vital operation is to utilize the relative misaligned frames for the current frame reconstruction and preserve the consistency of the results. Existing methods generally explore information propagation and frame alignment to improve the performance of VSR. However, few studies focus on the temporal consistency of inter-frames. In this paper, we propose a Temporal Consistency learning Network (TCNet) for VSR in an end-to-end manner, to enhance the consistency of the reconstructed videos. A spatio-temporal stability module is designed to learn the self-alignment from inter-frames. Especially, the correlative matching is employed to exploit the spatial dependency from each frame to maintain structural stability. Moreover, a self-attention mechanism is utilized to learn the temporal correspondence to implement an adaptive warping operation for temporal consistency among multi-frames. Besides, a hybrid recurrent architecture is designed to leverage short-term and long-term information. We further present a progressive fusion module to perform a multistage fusion of spatio-temporal features. And the final reconstructed frames are refined by these fused features. Objective and subjective results of various experiments demonstrate that TCNet has superior performance on different benchmark datasets, compared to several state-of-the-art methods.
