Application of attention-DnCNN for ESPI fringe patterns denoising

Fringe patterns' denoising in electronic speckle pattern interferometry (ESPI) is an important step in phase extraction. In this study, we propose a new denoising method for ESPI fringe patterns based on a convolutional neural network (CNN). The proposed model which combines the attention mechanism and CNN is defined as attention-denoising CNN. In this model, owing to the attention mechanism, more attention will be paid to fringe information, and better filtering results will be achieved. The experimental results show that our proposed method can obtain excellent results, especially with high and large variation density ESPI fringe patterns.