DoPAMINE: Double-Sided Masked CNN for Pixel Adaptive Multiplicative Noise Despeckling

Authors

  • Sunghwan Joo Sungkyunkwan University
  • Sungmin Cha Sungkyunkwan University
  • Taesup Moon Sungkyunkwan University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v33i01.33014031

Abstract

We propose DoPAMINE, a new neural network based multiplicative noise despeckling algorithm. Our algorithm is inspired by Neural AIDE (N-AIDE), which is a recently proposed neural adaptive image denoiser. While the original NAIDE was designed for the additive noise case, we show that the same framework, i.e., adaptively learning a network for pixel-wise affine denoisers by minimizing an unbiased estimate of MSE, can be applied to the multiplicative noise case as well. Moreover, we derive a double-sided masked CNN architecture which can control the variance of the activation values in each layer and converge fast to high denoising performance during supervised training. In the experimental results, we show our DoPAMINE possesses high adaptivity via fine-tuning the network parameters based on the given noisy image and achieves significantly better despeckling results compared to SAR-DRN, a state-of-the-art CNN-based algorithm.

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Published

2019-07-17

How to Cite

Joo, S., Cha, S., & Moon, T. (2019). DoPAMINE: Double-Sided Masked CNN for Pixel Adaptive Multiplicative Noise Despeckling. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 33(01), 4031-4038. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v33i01.33014031

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AAAI Technical Track: Machine Learning