Limits of super-resolution  [Baker & Kanade, 2002]
Performance degrades significantly beyond 4x or so
Doesn’t matter how many new images you add
space of possible (ambiguous) solutions explodes quickly
Major cause
quantizing pixels to 8-bit gray values
Possible solutions:
nonlinear techniques (e.g., L1)
better priors (e.g., using domain knowledge)
Baker & Kanade “Hallucination”, 2002
Freeman et al. “Example-based super-resolution”