An ELU-CNN image denoising model based on convolution neural network(CNN)is proposed to realize automatic detection of the defects on the shaft lining. It is a 28-layer full-convolution denoising network model and consists of five feature extraction modules(FEMs)and skip connections. The skip connections combine the output features of the first convolution layer with the output features of each FEM to ensure the full extraction of image features. The residual learning is used in the ELU-CNN model to relieve the gradient disappearance problem
to improve the convergence speed
and to ensure that the learned nonlinear mapping from a noisy image by the denoising model after training is a noise image. ELU is used as an activation function. It has soft saturation performance
and the average of its outputs is close to zero. These properties can accelerate the convergence of the model and enhance the robustness of the model to the input noises. The denoising effect of ELU-CNN is verified on the standard test sets BSD68 and set12 as well as actual shaft wall images
and is compared with those of some advanced methods. The experimental results on BSD68 and set12 with noise concentration σ=(15
25
35
50
75)and comparisons with FFDNet model show that the average of peak signal to noise ratios of ELU-CNN increases(0.17
0.11
0.08
0.05
0.03)dB and(0.18
0.16
0.08
0.06
0.07)dB
respectively. ELU-CNN can better preserve the texture information of fractures when removing blind noise from shaft wall images.
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