Title
Multi-level Wavelet-CNN for Image Restoration
Abstract
The tradeoff between receptive field size and efficiency is a crucial issue in low level vision. Plain convolutional networks (CNNs) generally enlarge the receptive field at the expense of computational cost. Recently, dilated filtering has been adopted to address this issue. But it suffers from gridding effect, and the resulting receptive field is only a sparse sampling of input image with checkerboard patterns. In this paper, we present a novel multi-level wavelet CNN (MWCNN) model for better tradeoff between receptive field size and computational efficiency. With the modified U-Net architecture, wavelet transform is introduced to reduce the size of feature maps in the contracting subnetwork. Furthermore, another convolutional layer is further used to decrease the channels of feature maps. In the expanding subnetwork, inverse wavelet transform is then deployed to reconstruct the high resolution feature maps. Our MWCNN can also be explained as the generalization of dilated filtering and subsampling, and can be applied to many image restoration tasks. The experimental results clearly show the effectiveness of MWCNN for image denoising, single image super-resolution, and JPEG image artifacts removal.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/CVPRW.2018.00121
2018 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW)
Keywords
DocType
Volume
multilevel wavelet-CNN,receptive field size,plain convolutional networks,dilated filtering,MWCNN,convolutional layer,inverse wavelet transform,high resolution feature maps,image restoration tasks,image denoising,single image super-resolution,JPEG image artifacts removal,receptive field,multilevel wavelet CNN model
Conference
abs/1805.07071
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2160-7508
978-1-5386-6101-7
18
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.56
35
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
pengju liu1292.38
Hongzhi Zhang2211.27
Kai Zhang368626.59
Liang Lin43007151.07
Wangmeng Zuo53833173.11