Self-Supervised Image Denoising for Real-World Images with Context-aware Transformer

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2304.01627v1
• Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2023 08:30:50 GMT
• Title: Self-Supervised Image Denoising for Real-World Images with Context-aware Transformer
• Authors: Dan Zhang, Fangfang Zhou
• Abstract summary: We propose a novel Denoise Transformer for real-world image denoising. It is mainly constructed with Context-aware Denoise Transformer (CADT) units and Secondary Noise Extractor (SNE) block. Experiments on the real-world SIDD benchmark achieve 50.62/0.990 for PSNR/SSIM, which is competitive with the current state-of-the-art method.
• Score: 3.767629593484917
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: In recent years, the development of deep learning has been pushing image denoising to a new level. Among them, self-supervised denoising is increasingly popular because it does not require any prior knowledge. Most of the existing self-supervised methods are based on convolutional neural networks (CNN), which are restricted by the locality of the receptive field and would cause color shifts or textures loss. In this paper, we propose a novel Denoise Transformer for real-world image denoising, which is mainly constructed with Context-aware Denoise Transformer (CADT) units and Secondary Noise Extractor (SNE) block. CADT is designed as a dual-branch structure, where the global branch uses a window-based Transformer encoder to extract the global information, while the local branch focuses on the extraction of local features with small receptive field. By incorporating CADT as basic components, we build a hierarchical network to directly learn the noise distribution information through residual learning and obtain the first stage denoised output. Then, we design SNE in low computation for secondary global noise extraction. Finally the blind spots are collected from the Denoise Transformer output and reconstructed, forming the final denoised image. Extensive experiments on the real-world SIDD benchmark achieve 50.62/0.990 for PSNR/SSIM, which is competitive with the current state-of-the-art method and only 0.17/0.001 lower. Visual comparisons on public sRGB, Raw-RGB and greyscale datasets prove that our proposed Denoise Transformer has a competitive performance, especially on blurred textures and low-light images, without using additional knowledge, e.g., noise level or noise type, regarding the underlying unknown noise.

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