Denoising an image by denoising its curvature image

In this article we argue that when an image is corrupted by additive noise, its curvature image is less affected by it, i.e. the PSNR of the curvature image is larger. We speculate that, given a denoising method, we may obtain better results by applying it to the curvature image and then reconstruct...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Bertalmío, Marcelo, Levine, Stacey
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2014
País:España
Institución:Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Repositorio:Repositorio Digital de la UPF
OAI Identifier:oai:repositori.upf.edu:10230/26983
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10230/26983
http://dx.doi.org/10.1137/120901246
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Image denoising
Curvature
Image reconstruction
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Sumario:In this article we argue that when an image is corrupted by additive noise, its curvature image is less affected by it, i.e. the PSNR of the curvature image is larger. We speculate that, given a denoising method, we may obtain better results by applying it to the curvature image and then reconstructing from it a clean image, rather than denoising the original image directly. Numerical experiments confirm this for several PDE-based and patch-based denoising algorithms.