Learning-based Noise Component Map Estimation for Image Denoising

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1407-1411
JournalIEEE Signal Processing Letters
Volume29
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022
Publication typeA1 Journal article-refereed

Keywords

  • Convolutional neural networks
  • Estimation
  • Image color analysis
  • Image denoising
  • Noise measurement
  • Noise reduction
  • non i.i.d
  • Training

Publication forum classification

  • Publication forum level 2

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Signal Processing
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Applied Mathematics

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