Convolutional Autoencoders for Image Noise Reduction

In "Anomaly Detection with Autoencoders Made Easy" I mentioned that the Autoencoders have been widely applied in dimension reduction and image noise reduction. Since then many readers have asked if I can cover the topic of image noise reduction using autoencoders. That is the motivation of this post. Modeling image data requires a special approach in the neural network world. The best known neural network for modeling image data is the Convolutional Neural Network (CNN, or ConvNet) or called Convolutional Autoencoder.