Improved Hierarchical M-Net plus for Blind Image Denoising

Image denoising is a long standing ill-posed problem. Recently, the convolution neural networks (CNNs) gradually stand in the spotlight and almost dominated the computer vision field and had achieved impressive results in different levels of vision tasks. One of famous hierarchical CNN-backbones is the U-Net which shows awesome performance in both denoising and other areas of computer vision. However, the hierarchical architecture usually suffers from the loss of spatial information due to the repeated sampling. It seriously affects the denoising performance especially the element-wise task like denoising. In this paper, we proposed an improved hierarchical backbone: M-Net+ for image denoising to ameliorate the loss of spatial details. Furthermore, we test on two synthetic Gaussian noise datasets to demonstrate the competitive result of our model.