Title
Learning a Deep Convolutional Network for Speckle Noise Reduction in Underwater Sonar Images
Abstract
Underwater sonar imaging system has been widely utilized to detect and identify the submerged objects of interest. However, imaging quality often suffers from the undesirable signal-dependent speckle noise during signal acquisition and transmission. The speckle noise will restrict the practical applications, such as object detection, tracking and recognition, etc. To enhance the sonar imaging performance, we propose a deep learning approach to directly estimate the speckle noise in logarithmic domain based on the convolutional neural network. Once the speckle noise is obtained, the latent sharp image can then be easily calculated according to the image degradation model. The patch-based loss function, i.e., structural similarity metric, is adopted to preserve the important geometrical structures during speckle noise reduction. Experiments have been implemented on different noise levels to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed deep learning approach. Experimental results have illustrated that it outperforms several widely-used speckle noise reduction methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1145/3318299.3318358
Proceedings of the 2019 11th International Conference on Machine Learning and Computing
Keywords
DocType
ISBN
Underwater sonar image, conventional neural network, deep learning, image restoration, speckle noise reduction
Conference
978-1-4503-6600-7
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yuxu Lu101.35
Ryan Wen Liu2163.73
Fenge Chen391.80
Liang Xie41667.23