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access icon free Curvelet-based multiscale denoising using non-local means & guided image filter

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Received 05/08/2017, Accepted 27/12/2017, Revised 03/12/2017, Published 05/01/2018

This study presents an image denoising technique using multiscale non-local means (NLM) filtering combined with hard thresholding in curvelet domain. The inevitable ringing artefacts in the reconstructed image – due to thresholding – is further processed using a guided image filter for better preservation of local structures like edges, textures and small details. The authors decomposed the image into three different curvelet scales including the approximation and the fine scale. The low-frequency noise in the approximation sub-band and the edges with small textural details in the fine scale are processed independently using a multiscale NLM filter. On the other hand, the hard thresholding in the remaining coarser scale is applied to separate the signal and the noise subspace. Experimental results on both greyscale and colour images indicate that the proposed approach is competitive at lower noise strength with respect to peak signal to noise ratio and structural similarity index measure and excels in performance at higher noise strength compared with several state-of-the-art algorithms.

Inspec keywords: filtering theory; image reconstruction; curvelet transforms; image denoising; image segmentation; approximation theory

Other keywords: small textural details; coarser scale; curvelet-based multiscale denoising; curvelet scales; multiscale NLM filtering; noise strength; low-frequency noise; noise subspace; hard thresholding; fine scale; image denoising technique; peak signal-to-noise ratio; multiscale nonlocal means filtering; ringing artefacts; approximation subband; local structure preservation; guided image filter; structural similarity index measure

Subjects: Integral transforms in numerical analysis; Optical, image and video signal processing; Integral transforms in numerical analysis; Interpolation and function approximation (numerical analysis); Computer vision and image processing techniques; Filtering methods in signal processing; Interpolation and function approximation (numerical analysis)

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