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When Image Denoising Meets High-Level Vision Tasks: A Deep Learning Approach
Conventionally, image denoising and high-level vision tasks are handled
separately in computer vision. In this paper, we cope with the two jointly and
explore the mutual influence between them. First we propose a convolutional
neural network for image denoising which achieves the state-of-the-art
performance. Second we propose a deep neural network solution that cascades two
modules for image denoising and various high-level tasks, respectively, and use
the joint loss for updating only the denoising network via back-propagation. We
demonstrate that on one hand, the proposed denoiser has the generality to
overcome the performance degradation of different high-level vision tasks. On
the other hand, with the guidance of high-level vision information, the
denoising network can generate more visually appealing results. To the best of
our knowledge, this is the first work investigating the benefit of exploiting
image semantics simultaneously for image denoising and high-level vision tasks
via deep learning. The code is available online
https://github.com/Ding-Liu/DeepDenoising.Comment: the 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
(2018
From Rank Estimation to Rank Approximation: Rank Residual Constraint for Image Restoration
In this paper, we propose a novel approach to the rank minimization problem,
termed rank residual constraint (RRC) model. Different from existing low-rank
based approaches, such as the well-known nuclear norm minimization (NNM) and
the weighted nuclear norm minimization (WNNM), which estimate the underlying
low-rank matrix directly from the corrupted observations, we progressively
approximate the underlying low-rank matrix via minimizing the rank residual.
Through integrating the image nonlocal self-similarity (NSS) prior with the
proposed RRC model, we apply it to image restoration tasks, including image
denoising and image compression artifacts reduction. Towards this end, we first
obtain a good reference of the original image groups by using the image NSS
prior, and then the rank residual of the image groups between this reference
and the degraded image is minimized to achieve a better estimate to the desired
image. In this manner, both the reference and the estimated image are updated
gradually and jointly in each iteration. Based on the group-based sparse
representation model, we further provide a theoretical analysis on the
feasibility of the proposed RRC model. Experimental results demonstrate that
the proposed RRC model outperforms many state-of-the-art schemes in both the
objective and perceptual quality
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