# Synergy Between Semantic Segmentation and Image Denoising via Alternate Boosting Source: [Synergy Between Semantic Segmentation and Image Denoising via Alternate Boosting]() Collection index: [llms.txt]() Data updated: 2025-10-25T22:59:51.007Z Authors: Shunxin Xu, Ke Sun, Dong Liu, Zhiwei Xiong, Zheng-Jun Zha Published: 2021-02-24T06:48:45.000Z ## Abstract The capability of image semantic segmentation may be deteriorated due to noisy input image, where image denoising prior to segmentation helps. Both image denoising and semantic segmentation have been developed significantly with the advance of deep learning. Thus, we are interested in the synergy between them by using a holistic deep model. We observe that not only denoising helps combat the drop of segmentation accuracy due to noise, but also pixel-wise semantic information boosts the capability of denoising. We then propose a boosting network to perform denoising and segmentation alternately. The proposed network is composed of multiple segmentation and denoising blocks (SDBs), each of which estimates semantic map then uses the map to regularize denoising. Experimental results show that the denoised image quality is improved substantially and the segmentation accuracy is improved to close to that of clean images. Our code and models will be made publicly available. ## Recorded benchmark results A research result applies to its stated dataset, split, metric and evaluation configuration. Compare like-for-like settings, preserve the metric's unit and direction, and distinguish paper-reported results from independent reproduction. The best result recorded here is not a claim of exhaustive, current global coverage. ## Original sources and implementation [Original paper]() [PDF]()