Dictionary learning and similarity regularization based image noise reduction

  • Authors:
  • Shuyuan Yang;Linfang Zhao;Min Wang;Yueyuan Zhang;Licheng Jiao

  • Affiliations:
  • Key Lab of Intelligent Perception and Image Understanding of Ministry of Education, Department of Electrical Engineering, Xidian University, Xi'an 710071, China;Key Lab of Intelligent Perception and Image Understanding of Ministry of Education, Department of Electrical Engineering, Xidian University, Xi'an 710071, China;National Key Lab of Radar Signal Processing, Department of Electrical Engineering, Xidian University, Xi'an 710071, China;Key Lab of Intelligent Perception and Image Understanding of Ministry of Education, Department of Electrical Engineering, Xidian University, Xi'an 710071, China;Key Lab of Intelligent Perception and Image Understanding of Ministry of Education, Department of Electrical Engineering, Xidian University, Xi'an 710071, China

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Redundant dictionary learning based image noise reduction methods explore the sparse prior of patches and have proved to lead to state-of-the-art results; however, they do not explore the non-local similarity of image patches. In this paper we exploit both the structural similarities and sparse prior of image patches and propose a new dictionary learning and similarity regularization based image noise reduction method. By formulating the image noise reduction as a multiple variables optimization problem, we alternately optimize the variables to obtain the denoised image. Some experiments are taken on comparing the performance of our proposed method with its counterparts on some benchmark natural images, and the superiorities of our proposed method to its counterparts can be observed in both the visual results and some numerical guidelines.