A stochastic image denoising algorithm using 3-D block filtering under a non-local means framework

  • Authors:
  • Sreekanth G. Pai;C. V. Jiji

  • Affiliations:
  • College of Engineering, Kerala, India;College of Engineering, Kerala, India

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the Eighth Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose an iterative approach for image denoising using random sampling and 3-D transforms. To denoise an image block first we form an array of similar blocks followed by a sparse 3-D transform. Thresholding in 3-D transform domain followed by non-local means approach reconstructs the denoised image block. By processing all overlapping blocks and aggregating them using suitable weights we obtain the denoised estimate. To measure the completeness of the denoising process we apply a robust median estimator to estimate the output noise. The above steps are iterated till the output noise is minimum. By comparing with the state-of-the-art algorithms, we show that the proposed method outperforms the competing algorithms in terms of PSNR, structural similarity index and visual similarity.