Abstract
This paper proposes an image statistic for detecting random-valued impulse noise. By this statistic, we can identify most of the noisy pixels in the corrupted images. Combining it with an edge-preserving regularization, we obtain a powerful two-stage method for denoising random-valued impulse noise, even for noise levels as high as 60%. Simulation results show that our method is significantly better than a number of existing techniques in terms of image restoration and noise detection.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1112-1120 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | IEEE Transactions on Image Processing |
Volume | 16 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Apr 2007 |
Externally published | Yes |
Funding
Manuscript received February 28, 2006; revised October 21, 2006. This work was supported in part by RFDP (20030001103), in part by the NSFC (10571007) of China, and in part by HKRGC Grants CUHK 400503 and CUHK DAG 2060257. The associate editor coordinating the review of this manuscript and approving it for publication was Prof. Stanley J. Reeves.
Keywords
- Edge-preserving regularization
- Image denoising
- Noise detector
- Random-valued impulse noise