When taking pictures of electronic screens or objects with high-frequency textures, people often run across colorful rainbow patterns that are known as ''moire'', seriously affecting the image quality and subsequent processing. Current methods for removing moire patterns mostly extract multiscale information by downsampling pooling layers, which may inevitably cause information loss. To address this issue, this paper proposes a demoireing method in the wavelet domain. By employing both discrete wavelet transform (DWT) and inverse discrete wavelet transform (IDWT) instead of traditional downsampling and upsampling, this method can effectively increase the network receptive field without information loss. In addition, to further reconstruct more details of moire patterns, this paper proposes an efficient attention fusion module (EAFM). With a combination of efficient channel attention, spatial attention and local residual learning, this module can self-adaptively learn various weights of feature information at different levels and inspire the network to focus more on effective information such as moire details to improve learning and demoireing performance. Extensive experiments based on public datasets have shown that this suggested method can efficiently remove moire patterns and has a good quantitative and qualitative performance.INDEX TERMS Demoire, deep learning, wavelet transform, attention mechanism.
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