SERDNet: adaptive residual dense learning with dual-path fusion and squeeze-and-excitation for robust image denoising
摘要
Image denoising is a fundamental challenge in image restoration and is crucial for medical imaging, photography, and remote sensing applications. However, current deep learning methods often struggle with multi-scale feature extraction, generalization to diverse noise types, and computational efficiency. To address these issues, we propose SERDNet, a dual-branch architecture that integrates Residual Dense Blocks, Attention-Based Feature Fusion modules, and a Multi-Scale U-Net Encoder–Decoder with Squeeze-and-Excitation attention. The SERD branch enhances local features via hierarchical dense connectivity, while the Encoder–Decoder branch captures global context with adaptive feature fusion and skip connections. Extensive experiments on standard benchmarks—including BSD68, Set12, CBSD68, Kodak24, McMaster, CC, and SIDD—confirm that SERDNet consistently delivers superior performance compared to recent deep models, particularly in real-noise scenarios. It achieves up to 33.18 dB on BSD68 at