Reconstruction of low-resolution images using adaptive bimodal priors

  • Authors:
  • Hiêp Luong;Wilfried Philips

  • Affiliations:
  • Ghent University, Department of Telecommunications and Information Processing, Ghent, Belgium;Ghent University, Department of Telecommunications and Information Processing, Ghent, Belgium

  • Venue:
  • ICIAR'07 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Image Analysis and Recognition
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

This paper introduces a Bayesian restoration method for lowresolution images combined with a smoothness prior and a newly proposed adaptive bimodal prior. The bimodal prior is based on the fact that an edge pixel has a colour value that is typically a mixture of the colours of two connected regions, each having a dominant colour distribution. Local adaptation of the parameters of the bimodal prior is made to handle neighbourhoods which have typically more than two dominant colours. The maximum a posteriori estimator is worked out to solve the problem. Experimental results confirm the effectiveness of the proposed bimodal prior and show the visual superiority of our reconstruction scheme to other traditional interpolation and reconstruction methods for images with a strong colour modality like cartoons: noise and compression artefacts are removed very well and our method produces less blur and other annoying artefacts.