Path Tracing Denoising Based on SURE Adaptive Sampling and Neural Network

A novel reconstruction algorithm is presented to address the noise artifacts of path tracing. SURE (Stein's unbiased risk estimator) is adopted to estimate the noise level per pixel that guides adaptive sampling process. Modified MLPs (multilayer perceptron) network is used to predict the optim...

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Main Authors: Qiwei Xing, Chunyi Chen
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Language:English
Published: IEEE 2020-01-01
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9108228/
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description A novel reconstruction algorithm is presented to address the noise artifacts of path tracing. SURE (Stein's unbiased risk estimator) is adopted to estimate the noise level per pixel that guides adaptive sampling process. Modified MLPs (multilayer perceptron) network is used to predict the optimal reconstruction parameters. In sampling stage, coarse samples are firstly generated. Then each noise level is estimated with SURE. Additional samples are distributed to the pixels with high noise level. Next, we extract a few features from the results of adaptive sampling used for the subsequent reconstruction stage. In reconstruction stage, modified MLPs network is adopted to model a complex relationship between extracted features and optimal reconstruction parameters. An anisotropic filter is used to reconstruct the final images with the parameters predicted by neural networks. Compared to the state-of-the-art methods, experiment results demonstrate that our algorithm performs better than other methods in numerical error and visual image quality.
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spelling doaj.art-bad7c7723119416b92dba6733b9d75452022-12-21T20:30:35ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362020-01-01811633611634910.1109/ACCESS.2020.29998919108228Path Tracing Denoising Based on SURE Adaptive Sampling and Neural NetworkQiwei Xing0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5060-8669Chunyi Chen1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2228-3083School of Computer Science and Technology, Changchun University of Science and Technology, Changchun, ChinaSchool of Computer Science and Technology, Changchun University of Science and Technology, Changchun, ChinaA novel reconstruction algorithm is presented to address the noise artifacts of path tracing. SURE (Stein's unbiased risk estimator) is adopted to estimate the noise level per pixel that guides adaptive sampling process. Modified MLPs (multilayer perceptron) network is used to predict the optimal reconstruction parameters. In sampling stage, coarse samples are firstly generated. Then each noise level is estimated with SURE. Additional samples are distributed to the pixels with high noise level. Next, we extract a few features from the results of adaptive sampling used for the subsequent reconstruction stage. In reconstruction stage, modified MLPs network is adopted to model a complex relationship between extracted features and optimal reconstruction parameters. An anisotropic filter is used to reconstruct the final images with the parameters predicted by neural networks. Compared to the state-of-the-art methods, experiment results demonstrate that our algorithm performs better than other methods in numerical error and visual image quality.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9108228/Adaptive samplingSURE estimatorMLPs networkpath tracingdenoising
spellingShingle Qiwei Xing
Chunyi Chen
Path Tracing Denoising Based on SURE Adaptive Sampling and Neural Network
IEEE Access
Adaptive sampling
SURE estimator
MLPs network
path tracing
denoising
title Path Tracing Denoising Based on SURE Adaptive Sampling and Neural Network
title_full Path Tracing Denoising Based on SURE Adaptive Sampling and Neural Network
title_fullStr Path Tracing Denoising Based on SURE Adaptive Sampling and Neural Network
title_full_unstemmed Path Tracing Denoising Based on SURE Adaptive Sampling and Neural Network
title_short Path Tracing Denoising Based on SURE Adaptive Sampling and Neural Network
title_sort path tracing denoising based on sure adaptive sampling and neural network
topic Adaptive sampling
SURE estimator
MLPs network
path tracing
denoising
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9108228/
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