Noise removal using smoothed normals and surface fitting

  • Authors:
  • M. Lysaker;S. Osher;Xue-Cheng Tai

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Sci. Comput., Simula Res. Lab. AS, Norway;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

In this work, we use partial differential equation techniques to remove noise from digital images. The removal is done in two steps. We first use a total-variation filter to smooth the normal vectors of the level curves of a noise image. After this, we try to find a surface to fit the smoothed normal vectors. For each of these two stages, the problem is reduced to a nonlinear partial differential equation. Finite difference schemes are used to solve these equations. A broad range of numerical examples are given in the paper.