Restoration of images corrupted by Gaussian and uniform impulsive noise

  • Authors:
  • Ezequiel López-Rubio

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Languages and Computer Science, University of Málaga, Bulevar Louis Pasteur, 35. 29071 Málaga, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Many approaches to image restoration are aimed at removing either Gaussian or uniform impulsive noise. This is because both types of degradation processes are distinct in nature, and hence they are easier to manage when considered separately. Nevertheless, it is possible to find them operating on the same image, which produces a hard damage. This happens when an image, already contaminated by Gaussian noise in the image acquisition procedure, undergoes impulsive corruption during its digital transmission. Here we propose a principled method to remove both types of noise. It is based on a Bayesian classification of the input pixels, which is combined with the kernel regression framework.