XU Shao-ping, LI Chong-xi, LIN Guan-xi, et al. Fast Image Noise Level Estimation Algorithm Based on Principal Component Analysis and Deep Neural Network[J]. Acta Electronica Sinica, 2019, 47(2): 274-281.
DOI:
XU Shao-ping, LI Chong-xi, LIN Guan-xi, et al. Fast Image Noise Level Estimation Algorithm Based on Principal Component Analysis and Deep Neural Network[J]. Acta Electronica Sinica, 2019, 47(2): 274-281. DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.0372-2112.2019.02.003.
Fast Image Noise Level Estimation Algorithm Based on Principal Component Analysis and Deep Neural Network
Considering the fact that there exists the strong correlation between the first several eigenvalues (in ascending order)of the covariance matrix of the raw patches extracted from a noisy image and its noise level
we proposed a novel fast multiple image-based noise level estimation (FMNLE)algorithm using the principal component analysis (PCA)and the deep neural network (DNN).Specifically
we selected the first several eigenvalues of the raw patches to form a feature vector characterizing the noise level of an image.Then
we employed deep neural network to train an estimation model on a large number of representative natural images corrupted with known noise levels
by which the feature vector can be directly mapped into the corresponding noise level.To obtain higher estimation accuracy
a two-step estimation strategy was adopted.Extensive experiments show that
the estimation accuracy of the proposed algorithm is stable at each noise level with good efficiency
demonstrating a better comprehensive advantage as the pre-processing module for denoising algorithms.