Image denoising: Can plain neural networks compete with BM3D?

Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 2392-2399

  Burger, Harold C ^a   Schuler, Christian J ^a   Harmeling, Stefan ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENOISING METHODS; IMAGE DENOISING METHODS; IMAGE PATCHES; LARGE IMAGE DATABASE; MULTI LAYER PERCEPTRON; NOISY IMAGE; TRAINING DATA;

COMPUTER VISION; MAPPING;

IMAGE DENOISING;

EID: 84866679588     PISSN: 10636919     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CVPR.2012.6247952     Document Type: Conference Paper

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