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Fixed Pattern Noise Reduction for Infrared Images Based on Cascade Residual Attention CNN

Authors :
Guan, Juntao
Lai, Rui
Xiong, Ai
Liu, Zesheng
Gu, Lin
Publication Year :
2019

Abstract

Existing fixed pattern noise reduction (FPNR) methods are easily affected by the motion state of the scene and working condition of the image sensor, which leads to over smooth effects, ghosting artifacts as well as slow convergence rate. To address these issues, we design an innovative cascade convolution neural network (CNN) model with residual skip connections to realize single frame blind FPNR operation without any parameter tuning. Moreover, a coarse-fine convolution (CF-Conv) unit is introduced to extract complementary features in various scales and fuse them to pick more spatial information. Inspired by the success of the visual attention mechanism, we further propose a particular spatial-channel noise attention unit (SCNAU) to separate the scene details from fixed pattern noise more thoroughly and recover the real scene more accurately. Experimental results on test data demonstrate that the proposed cascade CNN-FPNR method outperforms the existing FPNR methods in both of visual effect and quantitative assessment.

Details

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.1910.09858
Document Type :
Working Paper
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2019.10.054