Multiplicative noise removal via a novel variational model

  • Authors:
  • Li-Li Huang;Liang Xiao;Zhi-Hui Wei

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China and Department of Information and Computing Science, Guangxi University of Technology, Liuzh ...;School of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China;Department of Applied Mathematics, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China

  • Venue:
  • Journal on Image and Video Processing - Special issue on emerging methods for color image and video quality enhancement
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Multiplicative noise appears in various image processing applications, such as synthetic aperture radar, ultrasound imaging, single particle emission-computed tomography, and positron emission tomography. Hence multiplicative noise removal is of momentous significance in coherent imaging systems and various image processing applications. This paper proposes a nonconvex Bayesian type variational model for multiplicative noise removal which includes the total variation (TV) and the Weberized TV as regularizer. We study the issues of existence and uniqueness of a minimizer for this variational model. Moreover, we develop a linearized gradient method to solve the associated Euler-Lagrange equation via a fixed-point iteration. Our experimental results show that the proposed model has good performance.