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Authors: Asif Khan and Mahmoud R. El-Sakka

Affiliation: The University of Western Ontario, Canada

Keyword(s): Image Denoising, Additive Gaussian Noise, Non-local Means, Two-stage Non-local Means, Spatial Domain Denoising.

Related Ontology Subjects/Areas/Topics: Computer Vision, Visualization and Computer Graphics ; Image Enhancement and Restoration ; Image Formation and Preprocessing

Abstract: Non-local means (NLM) is a popular image denoising scheme for reducing additive Gaussian noise. It uses a patch-based approach to find similar regions within a search neighborhood and estimates the denoised pixel based on the weighted average of all pixels in the neighborhood. All weights are considered for averaging, irrespective of the value of the weights. This paper proposes an improved variant of the original NLM scheme by thresholding the weights of the pixels within the search neighborhood, where the thresholded weights are used in the averaging step. The threshold value is adapted based on the noise level of a given image. The proposed method is used as a two-step approach for image denoising. In the first step the proposed method is applied to generate a basic estimate of the denoised image. The second step applies the proposed method once more but with different smoothing strength. Experiments show that the denoising performance of the proposed method is better than that of the original NLM scheme, and its variants. It also outperforms the state-of-the-art image denoising scheme, BM3D, but only at low noise levels (sigma <= 80). (More)

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Khan, A. and El-Sakka, M. (2016). Non-local Means using Adaptive Weight Thresholding. In Proceedings of the 11th Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP 2016) - Volume 3: VISAPP; ISBN 978-989-758-175-5; ISSN 2184-4321, SciTePress, pages 67-76. DOI: 10.5220/0005787100670076

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booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP 2016) - Volume 3: VISAPP},
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TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 11th Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP 2016) - Volume 3: VISAPP
TI - Non-local Means using Adaptive Weight Thresholding
SN - 978-989-758-175-5
IS - 2184-4321
AU - Khan, A.
AU - El-Sakka, M.
PY - 2016
SP - 67
EP - 76
DO - 10.5220/0005787100670076
PB - SciTePress