Peizhu Gong, Jin Liu^*, Shiqi Lv

Journal of Information Hiding and Privacy Protection, Vol.2, No.4, pp. 155-163, 2020, DOI:10.32604/jihpp.2020.010453

Abstract Image denoising is often used as a preprocessing step in computer vision tasks, which can help improve the accuracy of image processing models. Due to the imperfection of imaging systems, transmission media and recording equipment, digital images are often contaminated with various noises during their formation, which troubles the visual effects and even hinders people’s normal recognition. The pollution of noise directly affects the processing of image edge detection, feature extraction, pattern recognition, etc., making it difficult for people to break through the bottleneck by modifying the model. Many traditional filtering methods have shown poor performance since they do not… More >

Xiaoli Li^1,*, Chao Ye¹, Yujia Yan², Zhenlong Du¹

Journal of New Media, Vol.1, No.2, pp. 75-85, 2019, DOI:10.32604/jnm.2019.06259

Abstract In order to improve the quality of low-dose computational tomography (CT) images, the paper proposes an improved image denoising approach based on WGAN-gp with Wasserstein distance. For improving the training and the convergence efficiency, the given method introduces the gradient penalty term to WGAN network. The novel perceptual loss is introduced to make the texture information of the low-dose images sensitive to the diagnostician eye. The experimental results show that compared with the state-of-art methods, the time complexity is reduced, and the visual quality of low-dose CT images is significantly improved. More >