Locally adaptive selection of parameters in regularization-based denoising algorithms

  • Authors:
  • Katsuhiko Someya;Keisuke Kameyama

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan;University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

  • Venue:
  • SPPRA '08 Proceedings of the Fifth IASTED International Conference on Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Noise removal from an observed signal is an important problem in signal processing. PDE-based methods have been widely used because of their common property being good at removing the noise while preserving the edges. These methods restore images by modifying towards cartoon-like images. Therefore, other important features such as textures and certain details tend to be degraded in the denoising process. In this work, we propose a modified variational denoising algorithm that adaptively selects the parameters according to the local nature of the image. In order to estimate the locally appropriate parameters, neural network based learning is employed. This method can adaptively change the denoising level by changing the regularization parameter and the smoothing kernel according to the local image. The results of denoising by the proposed method show both visual and objective improvements.