From Noise Modeling to Blind Image Denoising

Author(s):  
Fengyuan Zhu ◽  
Guangyong Chen ◽  
Pheng Ann Heng
Author(s):  
Mohammad Nikzad ◽  
Yongsheng Gao ◽  
Jun Zhou

Though convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with residual and dense aggregations have obtained much attention in image denoising, they are incapable of exploiting different levels of contextual information at every convolutional unit in order to infer different levels of noise components with a single model. In this paper, to overcome this shortcoming we present a novel attention-based pyramid dilated lattice (APDL) architecture and investigate its capability for blind image denoising. The proposed framework can effectively harness the advantages of residual and dense aggregations to achieve a great trade-off between performance, parameter efficiency, and test time. It also employs a novel pyramid dilated convolution strategy to effectively capture contextual information corresponding to different noise levels through the training of a single model. Our extensive experimental investigation verifies the effectiveness and efficiency of the APDL architecture for image denoising as well as JPEG artifacts suppression tasks.


2016 ◽  
Vol 79 ◽  
pp. 314-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachana Dhannawat ◽  
Archana B. Patankar

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (8) ◽  
pp. 1518-1531 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fengyuan Zhu ◽  
Guangyong Chen ◽  
Jianye Hao ◽  
Pheng-Ann Heng

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 1278 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tian-Hui Ma ◽  
Zongben Xu ◽  
Deyu Meng

Noise removal is a fundamental problem in remote sensing image processing. Most existing methods, however, have not yet attained sufficient robustness in practice, due to more or less neglecting the intrinsic structures of remote sensing images and/or underestimating the complexity of realistic noise. In this paper, we propose a new remote sensing image denoising method by integrating intrinsic image characterization and robust noise modeling. Specifically, we use low-Tucker-rank tensor approximation to capture the global multi-factor correlation within the underlying image, and adopt a non-identical and non-independent distributed mixture of Gaussians (non-i.i.d. MoG) assumption to encode the statistical configurations of the embedded noise. Then, we incorporate the proposed image and noise priors into a full Bayesian generative model and design an efficient variational Bayesian algorithm to infer all involved variables by closed-form equations. Moreover, adaptive strategies for the selection of hyperparameters are further developed to make our algorithm free from burdensome hyperparameter-tuning. Extensive experiments on both simulated and real multispectral/hyperspectral images demonstrate the superiority of the proposed method over the compared state-of-the-art ones.


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