Super resolution reconstruction of noisy images based on dense residual connected U-shaped networks

Abstract

The existing image super-resolution reconstruction networks are difficult to apply to noise intensive application scenarios in coal mines. Most networks improve performance by increasing depth, which leads to problems such as ineffective extraction of key features and loss of high-frequency information. In order to solve the above problems, a dense residual connected U-shaped network is proposed for super-resolution reconstruction of low resolution noisy images. The denoising module based on dense residual connections is introduced in the feature extraction path, fully extracting image features through dense connections. The features of residual learning are used to effectively denoise low resolution noisy images. The residual feature attention distillation module is introduced in the reconstruction path, by incorporating enhanced feature attention blocks into the residual blocks, different weights are assigned to features in different spaces to enhance the network's capability to extract key image features. The loss of image detail features is reduced in the residual blocks, thus better restoring image detail information. Comparative experiments are conducted on coal mine underground image datasets and public datasets, and the results show that in terms of objective evaluation index, structure similarity and image perception similarity of the proposed network are superior to the comparison network. It has a good balance in complexity and running speed. In terms of subjective visual effects, the image reconstructed by the proposed network basically eliminates the original image noise and effectively restores the detailed features of the image.

Keywords

• noisy images
• super resolution reconstruction
• dense residual connections
• u-shaped network
• noise reduction module
• residual feature attention distillation module