Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 57, Issue 22, 221018(2020)

Image Denoising Based on Asymmetric Convolutional Neural Networks

Jianwang Gan1, Yun Sha1、*, and Guoying Zhang2
Author Affiliations
  • 1School of Information Engineering, Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology, Beijing 102617, China
  • 2School of Mechanical Electronic & Information Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing), Beijing 100083, China;
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    Owing to the continuing decrement in the pixels of the images, the signal output of the digital imaging sensor is increasingly sensitive to photon noise, making the photon noise the main source of noise in the digital image sensor. To address this issue, an image denoising algorithm based on asymmetric convolutional neural networks is proposed herein. To enhance the generalization ability of the model, the network framework is divided into two parts: noise evaluation network and denoising network. To reduce the semantic gap between the network feature mapping in the encoder and the decoder, the skip connection in the denoising network is improved to make the features more similar in semantics to facilitate task optimization. From the qualitative and quantitative aspects of comparative experiments, the experimental results show that the proposed network model exhibits better denoising performance.

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    Paper Information

    Category: Image Processing

    Received: Apr. 2, 2020

    Accepted: Apr. 21, 2020

    Published Online: Nov. 5, 2020

    The Author Email: Sha Yun (shayun@bipt.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/LOP57.221018

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