Adaptive Image Filtering and Segmentation Using Robust Estimation of Intensity
Proceedings of the Joint IAPR International Workshops on Advances in Pattern Recognition
Range image reconstruction based on robust multiresolution estimation of surface parameters
Pattern Recognition Letters
Iterative desensitisation of image restoration filters under wrong PSF and noise estimates
EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing
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A class of nonlinear regression filters based on robust estimation theory is introduced. The goal of the filtering is to recover a high-quality image from degraded observations. Models for desired image structures and contaminating processes are employed, but deviations from strict assumptions are allowed since the assumptions on signal and noise are typically only approximately true. The robustness of filters is usually addressed only in a distributional sense, i.e., the actual error distribution deviates from the nominal one. In this paper, the robustness is considered in a broad sense since the outliers may also be due to inappropriate signal model, or there may be more than one statistical population present in the processing window, causing biased estimates. Two filtering algorithms minimizing a least trimmed squares criterion are provided. The design of the filters is simple since no scale parameters or context-dependent threshold values are required. Experimental results using both real and simulated data are presented. The filters effectively attenuate both impulsive and nonimpulsive noise while recovering the signal structure and preserving interesting details