2021/09/24 by Sheyda Ghanbaralizadeh Bahnemiri, Bahnemiri, Sheyda Ghanbaralizadeh, Ponomarenko, Mykola +2 · 1 citation
Computer Science · Engineering · #Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Electrical engineering #Image Processing Techniques and Applications #Image and Signal Denoising Methods #Image and Video Processing (eess.IV) #Machine Learning (cs.LG) #Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Imaging #electronic engineering #information engineering
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2109.11877
openalex publication_date 2021/09/24 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
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 for 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 noise variance for the case of 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 same time better usage flexibility. Comparison with the ideal case, when denoising is applied using ground-truth sigma-map, shows that a difference of corresponding PSNR values for most of noise levels is within 0.1-0.2 dB and does not exceeds 0.6 dB.