scholarly journals Adversarial Gaussian Denoiser for Multiple-Level Image Denoising

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (9) ◽  
pp. 2998
Author(s):  
Aamir Khan ◽  
Weidong Jin ◽  
Amir Haider ◽  
MuhibUr Rahman ◽  
Desheng Wang
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Image Processing ◽  
Computer Vision ◽  
Image Denoising ◽  
Theoretical Study ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Multiple Level ◽  
Generative Adversarial Network ◽  
Adversarial Learning ◽  
Adversarial Network

Image denoising is a challenging task that is essential in numerous computer vision and image processing problems. This study proposes and applies a generative adversarial network-based image denoising training architecture to multiple-level Gaussian image denoising tasks. Convolutional neural network-based denoising approaches come across a blurriness issue that produces denoised images blurry on texture details. To resolve the blurriness issue, we first performed a theoretical study of the cause of the problem. Subsequently, we proposed an adversarial Gaussian denoiser network, which uses the generative adversarial network-based adversarial learning process for image denoising tasks. This framework resolves the blurriness problem by encouraging the denoiser network to find the distribution of sharp noise-free images instead of blurry images. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed framework can effectively resolve the blurriness problem and achieve significant denoising efficiency than the state-of-the-art denoising methods.

scholarly journals Speech Enhancement Using Generative Adversarial Network by Distilling Knowledge from Statistical Method

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (16) ◽  
pp. 3396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianfeng Wu ◽  
Yongzhu Hua ◽  
Shengying Yang ◽  
Hongshuai Qin ◽  
Huibin Qin
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Statistical Method ◽  
Speech Enhancement ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Generative Adversarial Network ◽  
Adversarial Learning ◽  
Noisy Speech ◽  
Adversarial Network ◽  
Knowledge Distillation ◽  
Enhancement Algorithm

This paper presents a new deep neural network (DNN)-based speech enhancement algorithm by integrating the distilled knowledge from the traditional statistical-based method. Unlike the other DNN-based methods, which usually train many different models on the same data and then average their predictions, or use a large number of noise types to enlarge the simulated noisy speech, the proposed method does not train a whole ensemble of models and does not require a mass of simulated noisy speech. It first trains a discriminator network and a generator network simultaneously using the adversarial learning method. Then, the discriminator network and generator network are re-trained by distilling knowledge from the statistical method, which is inspired by the knowledge distillation in a neural network. Finally, the generator network is fine-tuned using real noisy speech. Experiments on CHiME4 data sets demonstrate that the proposed method achieves a more robust performance than the compared DNN-based method in terms of perceptual speech quality.

scholarly journals Automated Processing and Phenotype Extraction of Ovine Medical Images Using a Combined Generative Adversarial Network and Computer Vision Pipeline

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (21) ◽  
pp. 7268
Author(s):  
James Francis Robson ◽  
Scott John Denholm ◽  
Mike Coffey
Keyword(s):  
Image Processing ◽  
Computer Vision ◽  
Medical Images ◽  
Similarity Index ◽  
Generative Adversarial Network ◽  
Adversarial Network ◽  
Timely Response ◽  
Phenotype Analysis ◽  
Breeding Programmes ◽  
Automated Processing

The speed and accuracy of phenotype detection from medical images are some of the most important qualities needed for any informed and timely response such as early detection of cancer or detection of desirable phenotypes for animal breeding. To improve both these qualities, the world is leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning against this challenge. Most recently, deep learning has successfully been applied to the medical field to improve detection accuracies and speed for conditions including cancer and COVID-19. In this study, we applied deep neural networks, in the form of a generative adversarial network (GAN), to perform image-to-image processing steps needed for ovine phenotype analysis from CT scans of sheep. Key phenotypes such as gigot geometry and tissue distribution were determined using a computer vision (CV) pipeline. The results of the image processing using a trained GAN are strikingly similar (a similarity index of 98%) when used on unseen test images. The combined GAN-CV pipeline was able to process and determine the phenotypes at a speed of 0.11 s per medical image compared to approximately 30 min for manual processing. We hope this pipeline represents the first step towards automated phenotype extraction for ovine genetic breeding programmes.

scholarly journals Generative Model of Brain Microbleeds for MRI Detection of Vascular Marker of Neurodegenerative Diseases

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saba Momeni ◽  
Amir Fazlollahi ◽  
Leo Lebrat ◽  
Paul Yates ◽  
Christopher Rowe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Ground Truth ◽  
Imaging Features ◽  
Neural Network Classifier ◽  
Generative Adversarial Network ◽  
Adversarial Network ◽  
High Diversity

Cerebral microbleeds (CMB) are increasingly present with aging and can reveal vascular pathologies associated with neurodegeneration. Deep learning-based classifiers can detect and quantify CMB from MRI, such as susceptibility imaging, but are challenging to train because of the limited availability of ground truth and many confounding imaging features, such as vessels or infarcts. In this study, we present a novel generative adversarial network (GAN) that has been trained to generate three-dimensional lesions, conditioned by volume and location. This allows one to investigate CMB characteristics and create large training datasets for deep learning-based detectors. We demonstrate the benefit of this approach by achieving state-of-the-art CMB detection of real CMB using a convolutional neural network classifier trained on synthetic CMB. Moreover, we showed that our proposed 3D lesion GAN model can be applied on unseen dataset, with different MRI parameters and diseases, to generate synthetic lesions with high diversity and without needing laboriously marked ground truth.

scholarly journals Fully Symmetric Convolutional Network for Effective Image Denoising

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 778 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steffi Priyanka ◽  
Yuan-Kai Wang
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Image Processing ◽  
Image Denoising ◽  
Gpu Computing ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Large Data ◽  
Convolutional Network ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Feature Extractor ◽  
A Chain

Neural-network-based image denoising is one of the promising approaches to deal with problems in image processing. In this work, a deep fully symmetric convolutional–deconvolutional neural network (FSCN) is proposed for image denoising. The proposed model comprises a novel architecture with a chain of successive symmetric convolutional–deconvolutional layers. This framework learns convolutional–deconvolutional mappings from corrupted images to the clean ones in an end-to-end fashion without using image priors. The convolutional layers act as feature extractor to encode primary components of the image contents while eliminating corruptions, and the deconvolutional layers then decode the image abstractions to recover the image content details. An adaptive moment optimizer is used to minimize the reconstruction loss as it is appropriate for large data and noisy images. Extensive experiments were conducted for image denoising to evaluate the FSCN model against the existing state-of-the-art denoising algorithms. The results show that the proposed model achieves superior denoising, both qualitatively and quantitatively. This work also presents the efficient implementation of the FSCN model by using GPU computing which makes it easy and attractive for practical denoising applications.

scholarly journals Overwater Image Dehazing via Cycle-Consistent Generative Adversarial Network

Electronics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 1877
Author(s):  
Shunyuan Zheng ◽  
Jiamin Sun ◽  
Qinglin Liu ◽  
Yuankai Qi ◽  
Jianen Yan
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Image Quality Assessment ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Qualitative Evaluation ◽  
Image Dehazing ◽  
Generative Adversarial Network ◽  
Test Dataset ◽  
Adversarial Network ◽  
Synthetic Test ◽  
Content Preservation

In contrast to images taken on land scenes, images taken over water are more prone to degradation due to the influence of the haze. However, existing image dehazing methods are mainly developed for land-scene images and perform poorly when applied to overwater images. To address this problem, we collect the first overwater image dehazing dataset and propose a Generative Adversial Network (GAN)-based method called OverWater Image Dehazing GAN (OWI-DehazeGAN). Due to the difficulties of collecting paired hazy and clean images, the dataset contains unpaired hazy and clean images taken over water. The proposed OWI-DehazeGAN is composed of an encoder–decoder framework, supervised by a forward-backward translation consistency loss for self-supervision and a perceptual loss for content preservation. In addition to qualitative evaluation, we design an image quality assessment neural network to rank the dehazed images. Experimental results on both real and synthetic test data demonstrate that the proposed method performs superiorly against several state-of-the-art land dehazing methods. Compared with the state-of-the-art, our method gains a significant improvement by 1.94% for SSIM, 7.13% for PSNR and 4.00% for CIEDE2000 on the synthetic test dataset.

scholarly journals Disguise of Steganography Behaviour: Steganography Using Image Processing with Generative Adversarial Network

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Mingjie Li ◽  
Zichi Wang ◽  
Haoxian Song ◽  
Yong Liu
Keyword(s):  
Image Processing ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Histogram Equalization ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Secret Data ◽  
Stego Image ◽  
Image Steganalysis ◽  
Generative Adversarial Network ◽  
Adversarial Network

The deep learning based image steganalysis is becoming a serious threat to modification-based image steganography in recent years. Generation-based steganography directly produces stego images with secret data and can resist the advanced steganalysis algorithms. This paper proposes a novel generation-based steganography method by disguising the stego images into the kinds of images processed by normal operations (e.g., histogram equalization and sharpening). Firstly, an image processing model is trained using DCGAN and WGAN-GP, which is used to generate the images processed by normal operations. Then, the noise mapped by secret data is inputted into the trained model, and the obtained stego image is indistinguishable from the processed image. In this way, the steganographic process can be covered by the process of image processing, leaving little embedding trace in the process of steganography. As a result, the security of steganography is guaranteed. Experimental results show that the proposed scheme has better security performance than the existing steganographic methods when checked by state-of-the-art steganalytic tools, and the superiority and applicability of the proposed work are shown.

Computer Vision and robotics in postal automation

1999 ◽  
Vol 18 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 265-273
Author(s):  
Giovanni B. Garibotto
Keyword(s):  
Image Processing ◽  
Computer Vision ◽  
Pattern Recognition ◽  
Material Handling ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Short Description ◽  
The Other ◽  
Functional Requirements ◽  
Postal Automation ◽  
And Robotics

The paper is intended to provide an overview of advanced robotic technologies within the context of Postal Automation services. The main functional requirements of the application are briefly referred, as well as the state of the art and new emerging solutions. Image Processing and Pattern Recognition have always played a fundamental role in Address Interpretation and Mail sorting and the new challenging objective is now off-line handwritten cursive recognition, in order to be able to handle all kind of addresses in a uniform way. On the other hand, advanced electromechanical and robotic solutions are extremely important to solve the problems of mail storage, transportation and distribution, as well as for material handling and logistics. Finally a short description of new services of Postal Automation is referred, by considering new emerging services of hybrid mail and paper to electronic conversion.

scholarly journals Disentangled generative adversarial network for low-dose CT

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenchao Du ◽  
Hu Chen ◽  
Hongyu Yang ◽  
Yi Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Network Architecture ◽  
Low Dose ◽  
Noise Suppression ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Visual Quality ◽  
Ct Images ◽  
Generative Adversarial Network ◽  
Low Dose Ct ◽  
Adversarial Network ◽  
Suppression Method

AbstractGenerative adversarial network (GAN) has been applied for low-dose CT images to predict normal-dose CT images. However, the undesired artifacts and details bring uncertainty to the clinical diagnosis. In order to improve the visual quality while suppressing the noise, in this paper, we mainly studied the two key components of deep learning based low-dose CT (LDCT) restoration models—network architecture and adversarial loss, and proposed a disentangled noise suppression method based on GAN (DNSGAN) for LDCT. Specifically, a generator network, which contains the noise suppression and structure recovery modules, is proposed. Furthermore, a multi-scaled relativistic adversarial loss is introduced to preserve the finer structures of generated images. Experiments on simulated and real LDCT datasets show that the proposed method can effectively remove noise while recovering finer details and provide better visual perception than other state-of-the-art methods.

scholarly journals Remote Sensing Image Dataset Expansion Based on Generative Adversarial Networks with Modified Shuffle Attention

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (14) ◽  
pp. 4867
Author(s):  
Lu Chen ◽  
Hongjun Wang ◽  
Xianghao Meng
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Neural Networks ◽  
Image Processing ◽  
Remote Sensing Image ◽  
Generative Adversarial Networks ◽  
Generative Adversarial Network ◽  
Evaluation Indexes ◽  
Adversarial Network ◽  
Remote Sensing Image Processing ◽  
Data Expansion

With the development of science and technology, neural networks, as an effective tool in image processing, play an important role in gradual remote-sensing image-processing. However, the training of neural networks requires a large sample database. Therefore, expanding datasets with limited samples has gradually become a research hotspot. The emergence of the generative adversarial network (GAN) provides new ideas for data expansion. Traditional GANs either require a large number of input data, or lack detail in the pictures generated. In this paper, we modify a shuffle attention network and introduce it into GAN to generate higher quality pictures with limited inputs. In addition, we improved the existing resize method and proposed an equal stretch resize method to solve the problem of image distortion caused by different input sizes. In the experiment, we also embed the newly proposed coordinate attention (CA) module into the backbone network as a control test. Qualitative indexes and six quantitative evaluation indexes were used to evaluate the experimental results, which show that, compared with other GANs used for picture generation, the modified Shuffle Attention GAN proposed in this paper can generate more refined and high-quality diversified aircraft pictures with more detailed features of the object under limited datasets.

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