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Improved Quasi-Recurrent Neural Network for Hyperspectral Image Denoising

Image and Video Processing 2023-04-04 v2 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Abstract

Hyperspectral image is unique and useful for its abundant spectral bands, but it subsequently requires extra elaborated treatments of the spatial-spectral correlation as well as the global correlation along the spectrum for building a robust and powerful HSI restoration algorithm. By considering such HSI characteristics, 3D Quasi-Recurrent Neural Network (QRNN3D) is one of the HSI denoising networks that has been shown to achieve excellent performance and flexibility. In this paper, we show that with a few simple modifications, the performance of QRNN3D could be substantially improved further. Our modifications are based on the finding that through QRNN3D is powerful for modeling spectral correlation, it neglects the proper treatment between features from different sources and its training strategy is suboptimal. We, therefore, introduce an adaptive fusion module to replace its vanilla additive skip connection to better fuse the features of the encoder and decoder. We additionally identify several important techniques to further enhance the performance, which includes removing batch normalization, use of extra frequency loss, and learning rate warm-up. Experimental results on various noise settings demonstrate the effectiveness and superior performance of our method.

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@article{arxiv.2211.14811,
  title  = {Improved Quasi-Recurrent Neural Network for Hyperspectral Image Denoising},
  author = {Zeqiang Lai and Ying Fu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.14811},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

The updated version of this paper is accidentally submitted as a new submission at arXiv:2301.11525

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