影像降噪（image denoising）是影像處理（image processing）領域中非常重要之研究議題。近年隨著智慧型手機、網際網路、以及社群媒體的蓬勃發展與普及化，透過數位影像傳遞資訊之方式逐漸廣為使用，而影像降噪相關等可提升影像品質之演算法顯得更加重要。

本論文中，延伸自 Ulyanov 等人~\cite{Ulyanov_2018_CVPR} 對於卷積神經網路（convolutional neural networks）架構性質之研究，進行卷積神經網路架構性質與降噪影像生成關係之實驗，對於卷積神經網路架構中各項運算子給出簡單且詳盡之概述，並針對此方法設計模型架構，且採用特殊正規化方式提升影像降噪之效率。

其中，此方法與近年主流卷積神經網路於影像應用之研究較為不同，主要的差異在於不需透過大量且成對之資料集進行訓練，訓練時間相對較短，且模型僅向具噪音之受損影像（noisy image）進行學習與生成，自始至終模型並未看過原始品質良好之影像（ground truth）。

Removing noise from the images to improve image quality is the main challenge in image processing. Especially as the ubiquitous spread of computers, smartphones, the Internet, and social networks, image denoising becomes more and more important.

In this work, we extend upon the results of Ulyanov et al.~\cite{Ulyanov_2018_CVPR} and introduce a competitive image denoising method based on the structure characteristic of convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Different from most CNN-based methods which need a large-scale dataset for training, our method only looks at one degraded image and removes noise on itself. This method is not only an application of image denoising but also a point of view for visualizing the property and effect of each element in convolutional neural networks.

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