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Learning-Based Noise Component Map Estimation for Image Denoising
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DOI：10.1109/LSP.2022.3169706.png)
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A problem of image denoising, when images are corrupted by a non-stationary noise, is considered in this paper. Since, in practice, no a priori information on noise is available, noise statistics should be pre-estimated prior to image denoising. In this paper, deep convolutional neural network (CNN) based method for estimation of a map of local, patch-wise, standard deviations of noise (so-called sigma-map) is proposed. It achieves the state-of-the-art performance in accuracy of estimation of sigma-map for the case of non-stationary noise, as well as estimation of a noise variance for the case of an additive white Gaussian noise. Extensive experiments on image denoising using estimated sigma-maps demonstrate that our method outperforms recent CNN-based blind image denoising methods by up to 6 dB in PSNR, as well as other state-of-the-art methods based on sigma-map estimation by up to 0.5 dB, providing, at the same time, better usage flexibility. A comparison with the ideal case, when denoising is applied using ground-truth sigma-map, shows that a difference of corresponding PSNR values for the most of noise levels is within 0.1-0.2 dB, and does not exceed 0.6 dB.
Keywords:
Estimation
Training
Noise measurement
Noise reduction
Image denoising
Image color analysis
Convolutional neural networks
Image denoising
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noise
blind noise parameters estimation
deep convolutional neural networks
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