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Physics-Based Noise Modeling for Extreme Low-Light Photography

Enhancing the visibility in extreme low-light environments is a challenging task. Under nearly lightless condition, existing image denoising methods could easily break down due to significantly low SNR. In this paper, we systematically study the noise statistics in the imaging pipeline of CMOS photosensors, and formulate a comprehensive noise model that can accurately characterize the real noise structures. Our novel model considers the noise sources caused by digital camera electronics which are largely overlooked by existing methods yet have significant influence on raw measurement in the dark. It provides a way to decouple the intricate noise structure into different statistical distributions with physical interpretations. Moreover, our noise model can be used to synthesize realistic training data for learning-based low-light denoising algorithms. In this regard, although promising results have been shown recently with deep convolutional neural networks, the success heavily depends on abundant noisy-clean image pairs for training, which are tremendously difficult to obtain in practice. Generalizing their trained models to images from new devices is also problematic. Extensive experiments on multiple low-light denoising datasets – including a newly collected one in this work covering various devices – show that a deep neural network trained with our proposed noise formation model can reach surprisingly-high accuracy. The results are on par with or sometimes even outperform training with paired real data, opening a new door to real-world extreme low-light photography.

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Judul Seri

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PATTERN ANALYSIS AND MACHINE INTELLIGENCE; Vol.44 No.11 Part 2 November 2022

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Penerbit

: .,

Deskripsi Fisik

p. 8520-8537

Bahasa

English

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NONE

Tipe Isi

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Tipe Media

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Tipe Pembawa

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Edisi

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Subjek

EXTREME LOW-LIGHT IMAGING
PHYSICS-BASED NOISE MODELING
DEEP LOW-LIGHT IMAGE DENOSING
LOW-LIGHT DENOISING DATASET

Info Detail Spesifik

DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2021.3103114

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Kaixuan Wei, Ying Fu, Yinqiang Zheng, Jiaolong Yang

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