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Gaussian Noise Reduction Algorithm using Self-similarity  

Jeon, Yougn-Eun (Samsung Electronics CO., LTD.)
Eom, Min-Young (Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University)
Choe, Yoon-Sik (Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University)
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Abstract
Most of natural images have a special property, what is called self-similarity, which is the basis of fractal image coding. Even though an image has local stationarity in several homogeneous regions, it is generally non-stationarysignal, especially in edge region. This is the main reason that poor results are induced in linear techniques. In order to overcome the difficulty we propose a non-linear technique using self-similarity in the image. In our work, an image is classified into stationary and non-stationary region with respect to sample variance. In case of stationary region, do-noising is performed as simply averaging of its neighborhoods. However, if the region is non-stationary region, stationalization is conducted as make a set of center pixels by similarity matching with respect to bMSE(block Mean Square Error). And then do-nosing is performed by Gaussian weighted averaging of center pixels of similar blocks, because the set of center pixels of similar blocks can be regarded as nearly stationary. The true image value is estimated by weighted average of the elements of the set. The experimental results show that our method has better performance and smaller variance than other methods as estimator.
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가우시안 잡음;잡음 제거;자기 유사성;
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