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Nonlinear filtering for phase image denoising

Nonlinear filtering for phase image denoising

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The problem of phase image denoising through nonlinear (NL) filtering is addressed. There are various imaging systems in which the phase information is utilised to generate useful imaging data. However, the presence of noise makes difficult to obtain the appropriate phase image. The authors apply NL vector filtering techniques to denoise the complex data from which the phase image is extracted. A study was realised in which several NL filters were applied to a simulated complex image. The effects of filtering were determined through a Monte Carlo simulation in which the image was successively contaminated with six different noise models. The effectiveness of the filters was measured in terms of normalised mean square error, signal-to-noise ratio and the number of eliminated phase residues. Results indicate a significant noise reduction, especially when NL filters based on angular distances are applied to the noisy input.

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