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Automatic Tuning of Denoising Algorithms Parameters Without Ground Truth

Image and Video Processing 2024-01-19 v1

Abstract

Denoising is omnipresent in image processing. It is usually addressed with algorithms relying on a set of hyperparameters that control the quality of the recovered image. Manual tuning of those parameters can be a daunting task, which calls for the development of automatic tuning methods. Given a denoising algorithm, the best set of parameters is the one that minimizes the error between denoised and ground-truth images. Clearly, this ideal approach is unrealistic, as the ground-truth images are unknown in practice. In this work, we propose unsupervised cost functions -- i.e., that only require the noisy image -- that allow us to reach this ideal gold standard performance. Specifically, the proposed approach makes it possible to obtain an average PSNR output within less than 1% of the best achievable PSNR.

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@article{arxiv.2401.09817,
  title  = {Automatic Tuning of Denoising Algorithms Parameters Without Ground Truth},
  author = {Arthur Floquet and Sayantan Dutta and Emmanuel Soubies and Duong Hung Pham and Denis Kouame},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.09817},
  year   = {2024}
}
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