{"title":"Heterogeneous Window Transformer for Image Denoising","authors":"Chunwei Tian;Menghua Zheng;Chia-Wen Lin;Zhiwu Li;David Zhang","doi":"10.1109/TSMC.2024.3429345","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Deep networks can usually depend on extracting more structural information to improve denoising results. However, they may ignore correlation between pixels from an image to pursue better-denoising performance. Window Transformer can use long- and short-distance modeling to interact pixels to address mentioned problem. To make a tradeoff between distance modeling and denoising time, we propose a heterogeneous window Transformer (HWformer) for image denoising. HWformer first designs heterogeneous global windows to capture global context information for improving denoising effects. To build a bridge between long and short-distance modeling, global windows are horizontally and vertically shifted to facilitate diversified information without increasing denoising time. To prevent the information loss phenomenon of independent patches, sparse idea is guided a feed-forward network to extract local information of neighboring patches. The proposed HWformer only takes 30% of popular restoration Transformer in terms of denoising time. Its codes can be obtained at \n<uri>https://github.com/hellloxiaotian/HWformer</uri>\n.","PeriodicalId":48915,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Systems Man Cybernetics-Systems","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.6000,"publicationDate":"2024-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"IEEE Transactions on Systems Man Cybernetics-Systems","FirstCategoryId":"94","ListUrlMain":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10623310/","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"AUTOMATION & CONTROL SYSTEMS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Deep networks can usually depend on extracting more structural information to improve denoising results. However, they may ignore correlation between pixels from an image to pursue better-denoising performance. Window Transformer can use long- and short-distance modeling to interact pixels to address mentioned problem. To make a tradeoff between distance modeling and denoising time, we propose a heterogeneous window Transformer (HWformer) for image denoising. HWformer first designs heterogeneous global windows to capture global context information for improving denoising effects. To build a bridge between long and short-distance modeling, global windows are horizontally and vertically shifted to facilitate diversified information without increasing denoising time. To prevent the information loss phenomenon of independent patches, sparse idea is guided a feed-forward network to extract local information of neighboring patches. The proposed HWformer only takes 30% of popular restoration Transformer in terms of denoising time. Its codes can be obtained at
https://github.com/hellloxiaotian/HWformer
.
期刊介绍:
The IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems encompasses the fields of systems engineering, covering issue formulation, analysis, and modeling throughout the systems engineering lifecycle phases. It addresses decision-making, issue interpretation, systems management, processes, and various methods such as optimization, modeling, and simulation in the development and deployment of large systems.