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Beyond Visual Fidelity: Benchmarking Super-Resolution Models for Large-Scale Remote Sensing Imagery via Downstream Task Integration

Dinesh Manocha, Gengchen Mai, Kangyang Chai, Sergii Skakun, Xiaowei Jia, Yanhua Li, Yiqun Xie, Zhihao Wang, Zhili Li

Super-resolution models picked by PSNR or SSIM often deliver worse results on actual remote sensing tasks than lower-scoring alternatives.

arxiv:2605.00310 v2 · 2026-05-01 · cs.CV · cs.AI · cs.LG

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The results show that improvements in traditional SR metrics often do not correlate with gains in task performance, and the correlations can be negative, indicating that these metrics provide limited guidance for selecting superior models for downstream tasks.

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That the chosen downstream task models, the five tasks per SR scenario, and the quality-controlled image pairs from 36,000 locations accurately represent the utility of SR outputs in real-world Earth monitoring applications.

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GeoSR-Bench shows that gains in traditional super-resolution metrics like PSNR and SSIM frequently do not correlate with, and can negatively correlate with, performance on downstream remote sensing tasks.

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arxiv: 2605.00310 · arxiv_version: 2605.00310v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.00310 · pith_short_12: PEC4WROTOX7P · pith_short_16: PEC4WROTOX7P3I6Y · pith_short_8: PEC4WROT

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