Lightweight Image Denoising Network for Multimedia Teaching System

Abstract

Due to COVID-19, online education has become an important tool for teachers to teach students. Also, teachers depend on a multimedia teaching system (platform) to finish online education. However, interacted images from a multimedia teaching system may suffer from noise. To address this issue, we propose a lightweight image denoising network (LIDNet) for multimedia teaching systems. A parallel network can be used to mine complementary information. To achieve an adaptive CNN, an omni-dimensional dynamic convolution fused into an upper network can automatically adjust parameters to achieve a robust CNN, according to different input noisy images. That also enlarges the difference in network architecture, which can improve the denoising effect. To refine obtained structural information, a serial network is set behind a parallel network. To extract more salient information, an adaptively parametric rectifier linear unit composed of an attention mechanism and a ReLU is used into LIDNet. Experiments show that our proposed method is effective in image denoising, which can also provide assistance for multimedia teaching systems.

Keywords

• lightweight CNN
• dynamic convolution
• adaptive activation function
• image denoising
• multimedia teaching system