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http://dx.doi.org/10.17661/jkiiect.2019.12.3.321

Enhanced Block Matching Scheme for Denoising Images Based on Bit-Plane Decomposition of Images  

Pok, Gouchol (Division of Computer and IT Education, Pai Chai University)
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The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology / v.12, no.3, 2019 , pp. 321-326 More about this Journal
Abstract
Image denoising methods based on block matching are founded on the experimental observations that neighboring patches or blocks in images retain similar features with each other, and have been proved to show superior performance in denoising different kinds of noise. The methods, however, take into account only neighboring blocks in searching for similar blocks, and ignore the characteristic features of the reference block itself. Consequently, denoising performance is negatively affected when outliers of the Gaussian distribution are included in the reference block which is to be denoised. In this paper, we propose an expanded block matching method in which noisy images are first decomposed into a number of bit-planes, then the range of true signals are estimated based on the distribution of pixels on the bit-planes, and finally outliers are replaced by the neighboring pixels belonging to the estimated range. In this way, the advantages of the conventional Gaussian filter can be added to the blocking matching method. We tested the proposed method through extensive experiments with well known test-bed images, and observed that performance gain can be achieved by the proposed method.
Keywords
Block Matching; Collaborative Filtering; Denoising; Gaussian Filter; Gaussian Noise; Non-Local Mean Filter;
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