DEMC: A Deep Dual-Encoder Network for Denoising Monte Carlo Rendering |
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Authors: | Xin Yang Dawei Wang Wenbo Hu Li-Jing Zhao Bao-Cai Yin Qiang Zhang Xiao-Peng Wei Hongbo Fu |
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Affiliation: | 1.Department of Computer Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China;2.Department of Computer Science, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, China;3.Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, China;4.School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China |
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Abstract: | In this paper, we present DEMC, a deep dual-encoder network to remove Monte Carlo noise efficiently while preserving details. Denoising Monte Carlo rendering is different from natural image denoising since inexpensive by-products (feature buffers) can be extracted in the rendering stage. Most of them are noise-free and can provide sufficient details for image reconstruction. However, these feature buffers also contain redundant information. Hence, the main challenge of this topic is how to extract useful information and reconstruct clean images. To address this problem, we propose a novel network structure, dual-encoder network with a feature fusion sub-network, to fuse feature buffers firstly, then encode the fused feature buffers and a noisy image simultaneously, and finally reconstruct a clean image by a decoder network. Compared with the state-of-the-art methods, our model is more robust on a wide range of scenes, and is able to generate satisfactory results in a significantly faster way. |
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Keywords: | Monte Carlo rendering Monte Carlo denoising neural network |
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