Fractal-wavelet image denoising revisited

  • Authors:
  • M. Ghazel;G. H. Freeman;E. R. Vrscay

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Waterloo Univ., Ont.;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

The essence of fractal image denoising is to predict the fractal code of a noiseless image from its noisy observation. From the predicted fractal code, one can generate an estimate of the original image. We show how well fractal-wavelet denoising predicts parent wavelet subetres of the noiseless image. The performance of various fractal-wavelet denoising schemes (e.g., fixed partitioning, quadtree partitioning) is compared to that of some standard wavelet thresholding methods. We also examine the use of cycle spinning in fractal-based image denoising for the purpose enhancing the denoised estimates. Our experimental results show that these fractal-based image denoising methods are quite competitive with standard wavelet thresholding methods for image denoising. Finally, we compare the performance of the pixel- and wavelet-based fractal denoising schemes