Remove Noise from Color Image Using Pretrained Neural Network

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This example shows how to remove Gaussian noise from an RGB image. Split the image into separate color channels, then denoise each channel using a pretrained denoising neural network, DnCNN.

Read a color image into the workspace and convert the data to double. Display the pristine color image.

pristineRGB = imread('lighthouse.png');
pristineRGB = im2double(pristineRGB);
imshow(pristineRGB)
title('Pristine Image')

Add zero-mean Gaussian white noise with a variance of 0.01 to the image. imnoise adds noise to each color channel independently. Display the noisy color image.

noisyRGB = imnoise(pristineRGB,'gaussian',0,0.01);
imshow(noisyRGB)
title('Noisy Image')

Split the noisy RGB image into its individual color channels.

[noisyR,noisyG,noisyB] = imsplit(noisyRGB);

Load the pretrained DnCNN network.

net = denoisingNetwork('dncnn');

Use the DnCNN network to remove noise from each color channel.

denoisedR = denoiseImage(noisyR,net);
denoisedG = denoiseImage(noisyG,net);
denoisedB = denoiseImage(noisyB,net);

Recombine the denoised color channels to form the denoised RGB image. Display the denoised color image.

denoisedRGB = cat(3,denoisedR,denoisedG,denoisedB);
imshow(denoisedRGB)
title('Denoised Image')

Calculate the peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) for the noisy and denoised images. A larger PSNR indicates that noise has a smaller relative signal, and is associated with higher image quality.

noisyPSNR = psnr(noisyRGB,pristineRGB);
fprintf('\n The PSNR value of the noisy image is %0.4f.',noisyPSNR);

 The PSNR value of the noisy image is 20.6395.

denoisedPSNR = psnr(denoisedRGB,pristineRGB);
fprintf('\n The PSNR value of the denoised image is %0.4f.',denoisedPSNR);

 The PSNR value of the denoised image is 29.6857.

Calculate the structural similarity (SSIM) index for the noisy and denoised images. An SSIM index close to 1 indicates good agreement with the reference image, and higher image quality.

noisySSIM = ssim(noisyRGB,pristineRGB);
fprintf('\n The SSIM value of the noisy image is %0.4f.',noisySSIM);

 The SSIM value of the noisy image is 0.7393.

denoisedSSIM = ssim(denoisedRGB,pristineRGB);
fprintf('\n The SSIM value of the denoised image is %0.4f.',denoisedSSIM);

 The SSIM value of the denoised image is 0.9507.

In practice, image color channels frequently have correlated noise. To remove correlated image noise, first convert the RGB image to a color space with a luminance channel, such as the L*a*b* color space. Remove noise on the luminance channel only, then convert the denoised image back to the RGB color space.

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