Noise Reduction of Depth Cameras Images Based on Deep Neural Network

Mahdavi, Seyed Mehrdad; Ashourian, Mohsen

doi:10.29252/mjee.14.3.12

Document Type : Review Article

Authors

¹ Department of Computer engineering, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran.

² Department of Electrical Engineering, Majlesi Branch, Islamic Azad University, Majlesi, Iran.

https://doi.org/10.29252/mjee.14.3.12

Abstract

Today, infrared sensors or depth sensors are widely used to control applications, games, information acquisition, dynamic and static 3D scenes. Despite the widespread use of these images, their quality is limited to low-quality images, as the infrared sensor does not have high resolution and the images produced by it have noise. Therefore, given the problems and the importance of using 3-D images, the quality of these images should be improved in order to provide accurate images from depth cameras. In this paper, the noise reduction of depth images using convolutional neural networks is considered. A convolutional neural network with a depth of 20 and three layers and a pre-trained neural network is used. We developed the system and tested its performance for two datasets of depth and color images, Middlebury and EURECOM Kinect Face. Results show that for EURECOM Kinect Face images, PSNR improvement is approximately 8 to 15 dB and for Middlebury images the PSNR improvement is about 5 to 14 dB.

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Majlesi Journal of Electrical Engineering

Noise Reduction of Depth Cameras Images Based on Deep Neural Network

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Volume 14, Issue 3 - Serial Number 3
September 2020
Pages 95-100

Noise Reduction of Depth Cameras Images Based on Deep Neural Network

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Volume 14, Issue 3 - Serial Number 3September 2020Pages 95-100

Volume 14, Issue 3 - Serial Number 3
September 2020
Pages 95-100