Generative Recorrupted-to-Recorrupted: An Unsupervised Image Denoising Network for Arbitrary Noise Distribution

wan Bowen, Daming Shi

Keywords: Image denoising, Unsupervised, Deep learning

Abstract: With the great breakthrough of supervised learning in the field of denoising, more and more works focus on end-to-end learning to train denoisers. The premise of this method is effective is that there is certain data support, but in practice, it is particularly difficult to obtain labels in the training data. To this end, some unsupervised denoisers have emerged in recent years, however, the premise of these methods being effective is that the noise model needs to be known in advance, which will limit the practical use of unsupervised denoising. In addition, inaccurate noise prior from noise estimation algorithms causes low denoising accuracy. Therefore, we design a more practical denoiser that requires neither clean images as training labels nor noise model assumptions. Our method also needs the support of the noise model, the difference is that the model is generated by a residual image and a random mask during the network training process, and then the input and target of the network are generated from a single noisy images and the noise model, at the same time, train an unsupervised module and a pseudo supervised module. Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our framework and even surpass the accuracy of supervised denoising.

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