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Motion-Compensated Noise Estimation for Effective Video Processing  

Song, Byung-Cheol (School of Electronic Engineering, Inha University)
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Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP / v.46, no.5, 2009 , pp. 120-125 More about this Journal
Abstract
For effective noise removal prior to video processing, noise power or noise variance of an input video sequence needs to be found exactly, but it is actually a very difficult process. This paper presents an accurate noise variance estimation algorithm based on motion compensation between two adjacent noisy pictures. Firstly, motion estimation is performed for each block in a picture, and the residue variance of the best motion-compensated block is calculated. Then, a noise variance estimate of the picture is obtained by adaptively averaging and properly scaling the variances close to the best variance. The simulation results show that the proposed noise estimation algorithm is very accurate and stable irrespective of noise level.
Keywords
잡음 예측;잡음 제거;움직임 보상;
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