A New Nonlocal H1 Model for Image Denoising

  • Authors:
  • Yan Jin;Jürgen Jost;Guofang Wang

  • Affiliations:
  • College of Information Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, China 310023;Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany 04103 and Fakultät für Mathematik und Informatik, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany 04091;Mathematisches Institut, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany 79104

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision
  • Year:
  • 2014

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Abstract

Following ideas of Kindermann et al. (Multiscale Model. Simul. 4(4):1091---1115, 2005) and Gilboa and Osher (Multiscale Model. Simul. 7:1005---1028, 2008) we introduce new nonlocal operators to interpret the nonlocal means filter (NLM) as a regularization of the corresponding Dirichlet functional. Then we use these nonlocal operators to propose a new nonlocal H1 model, which is (slightly) different from the nonlocal H1 model of Gilboa and Osher (Multiscale Model. Simul. 6(2):595---630, 2007; Proc. SPIE 6498:64980U, 2007). The key point is that both the fidelity and the smoothing term are derived from the same geometric principle. We compare this model with the nonlocal H1 model of Gilboa and Osher and the nonlocal means filter, both theoretically and in computer experiments. The experiments show that this new nonlocal H1 model also provides good results in image denoising and closer to the nonlocal means filter than the H1 model of Gilboa and Osher. This means that the new nonlocal operators yield a better interpretation of the nonlocal means filter than the nonlocal operators given in Gilboa and Osher (Multiscale Model. Simul. 7:1005---1028, 2008).