Attention-Aware Laparoscopic Image Desmoking Network with Lightness Embedding and Hybrid Guided Embedding
<|reference_start|>Attention-Aware Laparoscopic Image Desmoking Network with Lightness Embedding and Hybrid Guided Embedding: This paper presents a novel method of smoke removal from the laparoscopic images. Due to the heterogeneous nature of surgical smoke, a two-stage network is proposed to estimate the smoke distribution and reconstruct a clear, smoke-free surgical scene. The utilization of the lightness channel plays a pivotal role in providing vital information pertaining to smoke density. The reconstruction of smoke-free image is guided by a hybrid embedding, which combines the estimated smoke mask with the initial image. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method boasts a Peak Signal to Noise Ratio that is $2.79\%$ higher than the state-of-the-art methods, while also exhibits a remarkable $38.2\%$ reduction in run-time. Overall, the proposed method offers comparable or even superior performance in terms of both smoke removal quality and computational efficiency when compared to existing state-of-the-art methods. This work will be publicly available on http://homepage.hit.edu.cn/wpgao<|reference_end|>
@article{liu2024attention-aware,
    title={Attention-Aware Laparoscopic Image Desmoking Network with Lightness
  Embedding and Hybrid Guided Embedding},
    author={Ziteng Liu, Jiahua Zhu, Bainan Liu, Hao Liu, Wenpeng Gao, and Yili Fu},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.07556},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2404.07556},
    primaryClass={eess.IV cs.CV}
}