A novel denoising method for infrared image based on bilateral filtering and non-local means

This paper presents an image denoising method based on bilateral filtering and non-local means. The non-local region texture or structure of the image has the characteristics of repetition, which can be used to effectively preserve the edge and detail of the image. And compared with classical methods, bilateral filtering method has a better performance in denosing for the reason that the weight includes the geometric closeness factor and the intensity similarity factor. We combine the geometric closeness factor with the weight of non-local means, and construct a new weight. Experimental results show that the modified algorithm can achieve better performance. And it can protect the image detail and structure information better. This work has been supported by the Student’s Platform for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program (No.201510060022). E-mail:lflian@tjut.edu.cn      

An Improved SAR Image Denoising Metho d Based on Bo otstrap Statistical Estimation with ICA Basis

A new method for Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image denoising is proposed. The prior information of speckle statistical model can be exploited to judge its distribution. The basis of SAR image can be estimated by Independent component analysis (ICA), and these bases can be divided into two different subspaces (noise and real signal subspaces) through a linear classifier. Then para-metric Bootstrap estimates the parameters of speckle sta-tistical model on the noise signal subspace, and the non-parametric Bootstrap can estimate the distribution of real image on the real signal subspace. According to different results estimated by Bootstrap, corresponding Maximum a posterior probability (MAP) filter will be selected for im-age denoising, using the noise model’s parameter for adap-tive filtering. Experiments show that the image processed by this new method can achieve a better visual perception and ob jective evaluation results.     

IMAGE WAVELET DENOISING USING THE ROBUST LOCAL THRESHOLD

This paper suggests a scheme of image denoising based on two-dimensional discrete wavelet transform.The denoising algorithm is described with some operatiors.By thresholding the wavelet transform coefficients of noisy images, the original image can be reconstructed cor-rectly.Different threshold selections and thresholding methods are discussed.A new robust local threshold scheme is proposed.Quantifying the performance of image denoising schemes by using the mean square error, the performance of the robust local threshold scheme is demonstrated and is compared with the universal threshold scheme.The experiment shows that image denoising using the robust local threshold performs better than that using the universal threshold.     

Improved Denoising Autoencoder for Maritime Image Denoising and Semantic Segmentation of USV

Unmanned surface vehicle(USV)is currently a hot research topic in maritime communication network(MCN),where denoising and semantic segmentation of maritime images taken by USV have been rarely studied.The former has recently researched on autoencoder model used for image denoising,but the existed models are too complicated to be suitable for real-time detection of USV.In this paper,we proposed a lightweight autoencoder combined with inception module for maritime image denoising in different noisy environments and explore the effect of different inception modules on the denoising performance.Furthermore,we completed the semantic segmentation task for maritime images taken by USV utilizing the pretrained U-Net model with tuning,and compared them with original U-Net model based on different backbone.Subsequently,we compared the semantic segmentation of noised and denoised maritime images respectively to explore the effect of image noise on semantic segmentation performance.Case studies are provided to prove the feasibility of our proposed denoising and segmentation method.Finally,a simple integrated communication system combining image denoising and segmentation for USV is shown.     

AN APPROACH TO SUPPRESS SPECKLE NOISE AND ENHANCE EDGE

Anisotropic diffusion has good effect on reducing noise and preserving edge, but it may lose some details due to the blocky effect and can not suppress speckle effectively. The Laplacian factor is used to process the observed image which is considered as a piecewise planar image, so the Fourth Order Anisotropic Diffusion （FOAD） can avoid the blocky effect. The edge is preserved and enhanced by the Line Edge Detector （LED） based on stick technique and hypothesis test optimizing method. An approach called the Fourth Order Anisotropic Diffusion and Edge Enhancing （FOADEE）, where the LED is combined with the FOAD, is presented. For quantitative evaluation and comparison with the LED, the FOAD and the FOADEE, two parameters as measure of the noise suppression and edge preservation are introduced. It is proved that the novel method can not only suppress speckle prominently but also preserve even enhance edge and useful details effectively by applying it to the phantoms and tissue images.     

Steering knuckle diameter measurement based on optical 3D scanning

Three-dimensional（3D） modeling of medical images is a critical part of surgical simulation. In this paper, we focus on the magnetic resonance（MR） images denoising for brain modeling reconstruction, and exploit a practical solution. We attempt to remove the noise existing in the MR imaging signal and preserve the image characteristics. A wavelet-based adaptive curve shrinkage function is presented in spherical coordinates system. The comparative experiments show that the denoising method can preserve better image details and enhance the coefficients of contours. Using these denoised images, the brain 3D visualization is given through surface triangle mesh model, which demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed method.     

Low-light color image enhancement based on NSST

In order to improve the visibility and contrast of low-light images and better preserve the edge and details of images, a new low-light color image enhancement algorithm is proposed in this paper. The steps of the proposed algorithm are described as follows. First, the image is converted from the red, green and blue (RGB) color space to the hue , saturation and value (HSV) color space, and the histogram equalization (HE) is performed on the value component. Next, non-subsampled shearlet transform (NSST) is used on the value component to decompose the image into a low frequency sub-band and several high frequency sub-bands. Then, the low frequency sub-band and high frequency sub-bands are enhanced respectively by Gamma correction and improved guided image filtering (IGIF), and the enhancedvalue component is formed by inverse NSST transform. Finally, the image is converted back to the RGB color space to obtain the enhanced image. Experimental results show that the proposed method not only significantly improves the visibility and contrast, but also better preserves the edge and details of images.     

Infrared Image Denoising Based on Single-wavelet and Multiwavelets

Deviation is essential to classic soft threshold denoising in wavelet domain. Texture features of noised image denoised by wavelet transform were weakened. Gibbs effect is distinct at edges of image.Image blurs comparing with original noised image. To solve the questions, a blind denoising method based on single-wavelet transform and multiwavelets transform was proposed. The method doesn‘t depend on size of image and deviation to determine threshold of wavelet coefficients, which is different from classical soft-threshold denoising in wavelet domain. Moreover, the method is good for many types of noise. Gibbs effect disappeared with this method, edges of image are preserved well, and noise is smoothed and restrained effectively.     

An improved image blind deblurring based on dark channel prior

In order to solve the ringing effect caused by the incorrect estimation of the blur kernel, an improved blind image deblurring algorithm based on the dark channel prior is proposed. First, in the blur kernel estimation stage, high-pass filtering is introduced to enhance the image quality and enhance the edge information to make the blur kernel estimation more accurate. A combination of super Laplacian prior and dark channel prior is introduced to estimate the potential clear image. Then the accurate blur kernel is estimated through alternate iterations from coarse to fine. In the image restoration stage, a weighted least square filter is introduced to suppress the ringing effect of the original clear image to further improve the quality of image restoration. Finally, image deconvolution based on Laplace priors and L₀ regularized priors is used to restore clear images. Experimental results show that our approach improves the peak signal-to-noise ratio(PSNR) by about 0.4 d B and structural similarity(SSIM) by about 0.01, respectively. Compared with the existing image deblurring algorithms, this method can estimate the blur information more accurately, so that the restored image can achieve the effect of keeping the edges and removing ringing.     

Image Denoising by the Curvelet Transform for Doppler Frequency Extraction

In Doppler radar scoring systems,the echo can be represented as a gray image by time-frequency transform, so Doppler frequency extraction becomes curve detection in the image-view. In order to improve the performance of curve detection in low signal-noise-ratio environment, this paper proposes an image denoising method based on curvelet transform. Firstly, the gray image is divided into a nolse-image and a signal-linage by region partition. The noise-image is used to estimate the noise level of the signal-image in curvelet domain. And the signal- image is denoised in curvelet domain with processes as signal judgment, orientation detection and soft-threshold detection block by block. Inside each block~ signal judgment is used to check true signal,orientation detection is used to determine the direction and soft-threshold detection is used to filter the curvelet coefficients. The experimental results show the efficiency of the proposed method.     

一种高效的小波变换去噪方法

小波变换用于图像去噪的思想已经提出了很久,然而前人所提出的这种方法对于去噪的效果并不理想。图 像经这种小波变换去噪后,纹理特征被弱化,图像的边缘出现较明显的Gibbs效应,图像变模糊。针对以上问题,本文提 出了一种高效的小波变换去噪方法(HPID)。此去噪方法是基于小波变换的新方法,与经典的小波去噪方法不同,该方法不 依赖图像大小来判定去噪门限,不需方差信息,且适用于不同类型噪声。采用本方法处理的噪声图像与经典方法相比,不 仅消除了Gibbs效应,而且图像的边缘信息更清晰,纹理特征增强,去噪能力得到改善。     

基于Curvelet变换与小波包变换联合的图像去噪算法

小波包变换在处理图像中的平滑区域时能够起到较好的效果,而Curvelet变换可以更好地逼近线性奇异高维函数,对图像的边缘区域有最稀疏的表示.在此基础上提出了基于二者联合的图像去噪算法,在对含噪图像进行分割后,分别对线性区域和平滑区域采用Curvelet阈值去噪处理和小波包阈值去噪处理.该方法充分发挥了二者各自的优势,实验表明,它对图像的去噪效果要优于单纯的Curvelet或小波包去噪方法.     

一种新的小波图像去噪方法

小波图像去噪已经成为目前图像去噪的主要方法之一，目前的研究主要集中于如何选取阈值使去噪达到较好的效果。边缘信息是图像最为有用的高频信息，在图像去噪的同时，应尽量保留图像的边缘信息，基于这一思想，提出一种新的小波图像去噪方法。用数学形态学算子对图像小波变换后的小波系数进行处理，以去除具有较小支持域的噪声，保留具有连续支持域的边缘。实验结果表明，与普通的小波阈值去噪方法相比，该方法不但可以保留图像的边缘信息，而且能提高去噪后图像的峰值信噪比2～5dB，提高信噪比6～10dB。     

基于平稳小波变换的图像去噪方法

针对传统正交小波变换在图像去噪时存在的边缘失真，提出了一种基于平稳小波变换的图像去噪方法。使用系数关联法将图像小波分解后的高频分量像素标记为噪声和边缘，如果小波系数被标记为边缘，则保持其系数不变，否则采用基于邻域的方法进行系数收缩。当噪声方差较大时，收缩后最小尺度的高频分量中会存在一些孤立的亮点或暗点，借助次大尺度高频分量将其去除，对处理后的小波系数进行平稳小波反变换得到去噪图像。实验结果表明，本文方法能够在去除噪声的同时较好地保持图像的边缘，是一种有效的图像去噪方法。     

Wavelet domain denoising method based on multistage median filtering

There are two main problems in the threshold denoising method based on wavelet transform. One is the difficulty of threshold selection, and the other is the inconsistence of the dip and curved events in the low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) seismic data after denoising. In image denoising, multistage median filtering can preserve the details of the signal. So we proposed a denoising algorithm in wavelet transform domain based on multistage median filtering. Using this method the flat region and the edge region are differentiated by the difference between the maximum mid-value and the minimum mid-value, which preserves the details, thus improves the denoising effect. The simulation data and the real data processing results reveal that this method has stronger ability in separating signal from noise than that of the threshold denoising method.     

全变差数字滤波器与Ridgelet变换相结合 的图像去噪方法

针对Gurvelet变换采用的金字塔分解对图像细节表现的不足,我们提出利用全变差数字滤波器提取图像细节,然后对其采用基于分数阶傅立叶变换和投影－切片定理的Ridgelet变换,在变换域中由极小化极大误差准则进行阈值估计并对变换域系数进行阈值处理,以实现图像去噪.与金字塔分解相比,全变差数字滤波器能够简化图像分解并得到包含几乎所有细节的单幅图像,从而更有利于在Ridgelet域中进行降噪处理.实验结果表明,相对于Ridgelet和Curvelet变换的去噪方法,本文方法在抑制噪声的同时具有更有效的边缘保护能力,同时消除了边缘处的振荡,并且相对于Curvelet变换节省了计算.     

基于小波域Curvelet变换的湍流图像去噪算法

为了提高湍流图像的空间分辨率,提出了一种基于小波域Curvelet变换(wavelet domain Curvelet transform,WDCT)的湍流图像去噪算法。该算法根据湍流退化图像噪声的统计特性,结合贝叶斯萎缩方法优化阈值选择。首先,对含噪湍流图像进行单层二维离散小波变换,接着提取高频系数并对它作快速离散Curvelet变换,最后根据贝叶斯准则估计阈值T,改进阈值的自适应选取方法,获得最优阈值,最后给出湍流图像去噪实现过程。为验证本文算法,根据客观评价标准峰值信噪比(peak signal to noise ratio,PSNR)和均方根误差(mean square error,MSE),对模拟图像和实测湍流图像进行去噪实验。与DWT-NABayesShrink算法、UWT算法相比,视觉效果更好,PSNR值分别提高7.27%和4.92%,MSE值分别降低26.3%和23.1%。本文算法得到较清晰的目标图像,对湍流退化图像去噪有一定的应用价值。     

基于小波和脊波变换的探地雷达信号杂波抑制

针对如何有效去除探地雷达信号的干扰噪声问题,提出了一种基于小波和脊波变换的杂波抑制方法。小波能有效地描述图像的点奇异性,而脊波能有效地描述图像的线奇异性。首先结合小波和脊波的特点,对探地雷达回波信号进行自适应阈值去噪,然后利用脊波的方向敏感性在脊波域去除直达波信号,最终通过处理实际探底雷达数据,验证算法的有效性。     

基于BayesShrink阈值估计的Curvelet图像去噪

提出将BayesShrink阈值估计与硬阈值方法相结合并利用Curvelet方法对图像进行去噪的方法.经验证,此法优于BayesShrink小波去噪与传统的Curvelet阈值去噪效果,特别是在较大噪声的情况下更能显示出其优势.     

基于小波变换的分层阈值去噪算法研究

在研究各种软硬阈值噪声滤除方法的基础上,考虑到噪声能量在不同尺度、不同方向上的高频系数分布不同,提出了一种基于非线性小波变换的分层阈值去噪方法。该方法与全局阈值去噪相比较,具有更好的视觉效果和更高的峰值信噪比。文章方法与全局软硬阈值去噪处理的峰值信噪比和均方误差进行对比,可以看出,文章方法具有更好的去噪效果。