IEEE Access (Jan 2022)

Denoising of Maritime Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Photography Based on Guidance Correlation Pixel Sampling and Aggregation

  • Gang Jin,
  • Jian-Guo Wei,
  • Jing-Sheng Zhai

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3160711
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10
pp. 40109 – 40118

Abstract

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In this paper, we proposed a guidance correlation pixel Sampling and aggregation image denoising for maritime Unmanned Aerial Vehicles(UAVs) photography, providing a reliable data base for maritime reconnaissance work. The overall step is mainly composed of two parts, pixel sampling and pixel aggregation. To improve the content correlation of sampled pixels, we propose a guided sampling scheme based on the basic estimated map and extend this algorithm to the restoration of maritime UAVs image. Finally, a UAVs image denoising system is shown. Our experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can effectively remove noise and achieves ${32.98}{dB}$ and ${31.83}{dB}$ in Set12 and BSD68 datasets with less and image distortion. In the actual scene, the PSNR of our denoising algorithm has reached ${35.33}{dB}$ , meets the basic needs of practical vision and follow-up research.

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