Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 60, Issue 20, 2011003(2023)

Poisson Noise Suppression for Single-Photon Non-Line-of-Sight Imaging Based on Deep Learning

Min Tu1, Qiurong Yan1、*, Yongjian Zheng1, Xiancheng Xiong1, Quan Zou1, Qianling Dai1, and Xiaoqiang Lu2
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  • 1School of Information Engineering, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, Jiangxi , China
  • 2Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an 710119, Shaanxi , China
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    In non-line-of-sight imaging scenes, while effective echo photons are reduced to a great extent, Poisson noise largely impacts the non-line-of-sight imaging quality. Moreover, issues such as long iteration time, fixed mode, and manual parameter setting have been identified with traditional image Poisson noise suppression algorithms. Therefore, to improve the quality of non-line-of-sight imaging, this study designed a deep learning-based Poisson noise suppression method for single-photon non-line-of-sight imaging. First, geometrical optics approximation and Monte Carlo methods were implemented to track and model the photon motion trajectory in the non-line-of-sight scene, simulate the non-line-of-sight imaging process, produce a dataset using the Poisson noise images reconstructed from the simulation data, and address the problem of insufficient training samples. Subsequently, we designed an attention-based feature-enhanced noise suppression network (AEF-Net), followed by optimization and training of the network using simulation data. Furthermore, we built a non-line-of-sight imaging system to verify the Poisson noise suppression performance of the network. The experimental results show an outperformance of our designed noise suppression attention-based feature-enhanced noise suppression network than the conventional noise suppression algorithms for removing Poisson noise from non-line-of-sight scenes.

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    Min Tu, Qiurong Yan, Yongjian Zheng, Xiancheng Xiong, Quan Zou, Qianling Dai, Xiaoqiang Lu. Poisson Noise Suppression for Single-Photon Non-Line-of-Sight Imaging Based on Deep Learning[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2023, 60(20): 2011003

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    Paper Information

    Category: Imaging Systems

    Received: Nov. 4, 2022

    Accepted: Dec. 28, 2022

    Published Online: Sep. 28, 2023

    The Author Email: Yan Qiurong (yanqiurong@ncu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/LOP222969

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