Blind Denoising of Mixed Gaussian-impulse Noise by Single CNN

Abstract

The removal of mixed noise is a stiff problem since the distribution of the noise cannot be predicted accurately. The most common mixed noise is the combination of Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) and Impulse Noise (IN). Many methods first attempt to remove IN but it might collapse the texture of the image. In this paper, we propose a new learning-based method using convolutional neural network (CNN) for removing mixed gaussian-impulse noise. Since our denoising network can remove various level of mixed noise, neither the preprocessing for removing IN nor noise-level estimation is necessary.