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AWGN Removal using Laplace Distribution and Weighted Mask  

Park, Hwa-Jung (Dept. of Smart Robot Convergence and Application Eng., Pukyong National University)
Kim, Nam-Ho (Dept. of Control and Instrumentation Eng., Pukyong National University)
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Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering / v.25, no.12, 2021 , pp. 1846-1852 More about this Journal
Abstract
In modern society, various digital devices are being distributed in a wide range of fields due to the fourth industrial revolution and the development of IoT technology. However, noise is generated in the process of acquiring or transmitting an image, and not only damages the information, but also affects the system, causing errors and incorrect operation. AWGN is a representative noise among image noise. As a method for removing noise, prior research has been conducted, and among them, AF, A-TMF, and MF are the representative methods. Existing filters have a disadvantage that smoothing occurs in areas with high frequency components because it is difficult to consider the characteristics of images. Therefore, the proposed algorithm calculates the standard deviation distribution to effectively eliminate noise even in the high frequency domain, and then calculates the final output by applying the probability density function weight of the Laplace distribution using the curve fitting method.
Keywords
Laplace distribution; AWGN; Curve fitting; PSNR; Noise removal;
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