Deep class-aware image denoising

Tal Remez, Or Litany, Raja Giryes, Alex M. Bronstein

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Abstract

The increasing demand for high image quality in mobile devices brings forth the need for better computational enhancement techniques, and image denoising in particular. To this end, we propose a new fully convolutional deep neural network architecture which is simple yet powerful and achieves state-of-the-art performance for additive Gaussian noise removal. Furthermore, we claim that the personal photo-collections can usually be categorized into a small set of semantic classes. However simple, this observation has not been exploited in image denoising until now. We show that a significant boost in performance of up to 0.4dB PSNR can be achieved by making our network class-aware, namely, by fine-tuning it for images belonging to a specific semantic class. Relying on the hugely successful existing image classifiers, this research advocates for using a class-aware approach in all image enhancement tasks.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2017 12th International Conference on Sampling Theory and Applications, SampTA 2017
EditorsGholamreza Anbarjafari, Andi Kivinukk, Gert Tamberg
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages138-142
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781538615652
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Sep 2017
Event12th International Conference on Sampling Theory and Applications, SampTA 2017 - Tallinn, Estonia
Duration: 3 Jul 20177 Jul 2017

Publication series

Name2017 12th International Conference on Sampling Theory and Applications, SampTA 2017

Conference

Conference12th International Conference on Sampling Theory and Applications, SampTA 2017
Country/TerritoryEstonia
CityTallinn
Period3/07/177/07/17

Keywords

  • Image denoising
  • computer vision
  • image enhancement
  • image processing
  • machine learning

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