Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Techniques for robust image denoising
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Application No.: US16795486Application Date: 2020-02-19
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Publication No.: US12141945B2Publication Date: 2024-11-12
- Inventor: Zhilin Cai , Tunc Ozan Aydin , Marco Manzi , Ahmet Cengiz Oztireli
- Applicant: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC. , ETH Zürich (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich)
- Applicant Address: US CA Burbank; CH Zürich
- Assignee: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.,ETH Zürich (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich)
- Current Assignee: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.,ETH Zürich (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich)
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Burbank; CH Zürich
- Agency: Squire Patton Boggs LLP
- Agent Sarah Mirza
- Main IPC: G06T5/70
- IPC: G06T5/70 ; G06T5/50

Abstract:
Techniques are disclosed for training and applying a denoising model. The denoising model includes multiple specialized denoisers and a generalizer, each of which is a machine learning model. The specialized denoisers are trained to denoise images associated with specific ranges of noise parameters. The generalizer is trained to generate per-pixel denoising kernels for denoising images associated with arbitrary noise parameters using outputs of the specialized denoisers. Subsequent to training, a noisy image, such as a live-action image or a rendered image, can be denoised by inputting the noisy image into the specialized denoisers to obtain intermediate denoised images that are then input, along with the noisy image, into the generalizer to obtain per-pixel denoising kernels, which can be normalized and applied to denoise the noisy image.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210150674A1 TECHNIQUES FOR ROBUST IMAGE DENOISING Public/Granted day:2021-05-20
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