Characters are concerned in many image processing applications.Enhance resolutions of character images frequently lead to higher recognition rate.Considering vertical
horizontal and diagonal texture features of character images
a new image smoothness measurement as well as a new method for extracting image texture in different directions is proposed
and a single-frame super-resolution (SR) reconstruction method is implemented under the maximum a posteriori (MAP) framework.Using a self-adaptive flexible template as a convolution kernel
texture information is introduced into the image prior model.Therefore
SR reconstruction is finally converted into an objective function optimization problem.Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm effectively increases the recognition rate for character images and has preferable robustness to noise.