• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Communication Sciences Conference
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• 1988.10a
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• pp.266-270
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• 1988

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.11 no.4 s.42
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• pp.9-15
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• 2006

In this paper we propose Wilcoxon test, Median test and Van der Waerden test such as linear rank tests in two-sample location problem for detecting edges effectively in noisy images. These methods are based on detecting image intensity changes between two pixel neighborhoods using an edge-height model to perform effectively on noisy images. The neighborhood size used here is small and its shape is varied adaptively according to edge orientations. We compare and analysis the performance of these statistical edge detectors on both natural images and synthetic images with and without noise.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 1993.06a
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• pp.1313-1316
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• 1993

This paper presents a fuzzy system that estimates the optimal bit allocation matrices for the spatially active subimage classes of adaptive transform image coding in noisy channels. Transform image coding is good for image data compression but it requires a transmission error protection scheme to maintain the performance since the channel noise degrades its performance. The fuzzy system provides a simple way of estimating the bit allocation matrices from the optimal bit map computed by the method of minimizing the mean square error between the transform coefficients of the original and the reconstructed images.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.36 no.4
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• pp.503-513
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• 2020

This paper presents a method to evaluate denoising filters based on edge locations in their denoised images. Image quality assessment has often been performed by using structural similarity (SSIM). However, SSIM does not provide clearly the geometric accuracy of features in denoised images. Thus, in this paper, a method to localize edge locations with subpixel accuracy based on adaptive weighting of gradients is used for obtaining the subpixel locations of edges in ground truth image, noisy images, and denoised images. Then, this paper proposes a method to evaluate the geometric accuracy of edge locations based on root mean squares error (RMSE) and jaggedness with reference to ground truth locations. Jaggedness is a measure proposed in this study to measure the stability of the distribution of edge locations. Tested denoising filters are anisotropic diffusion (AF), bilateral filter, guided filter, weighted guided filter, weighted mean of patches filter, and smoothing filter (SF). SF is a simple filter that smooths images by applying a Gaussian blurring to a noisy image. Experiments were performed with a set of simulated images and natural images. The experimental results show that AF and SF recovered edge locations more accurately than the other tested filters in terms of SSIM, RMSE, and jaggedness and that SF produced better results than AF in terms of jaggedness.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.275-288
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• 2023

Many image edge details are easily lost in the image denoising process, and the smooth image regions are prone to produce jagged. In this paper, we propose a wavelet-based image global k- singular value decomposition variational method to remove image noise. A layer of wavelet decomposition is applied to the noisy image first. Then, the image global k-singular value decomposition (IGK-SVD) method is used to remove the random noise of low-frequency components. Furthermore, a constructed variational denoising method (VDM) removes the random noise in the high-frequency component. Finally, the denoised image is obtained by wavelet reconstruction. The experimental results show that the proposed method's peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) value is higher than other methods, and its structural similarity (SSIM) value is closer to one, indicating that the proposed method can effectively suppress image noise while retaining more image edge details. The denoised image has better denoising effects.

• KIISE Transactions on Computing Practices
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• v.20 no.11
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• pp.573-578
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• 2014

In this letter, we propose a noise reduction method for use in magnetic resonance images that is based on non-local mean and guided image filters. Our method consists of two phases. In the first phase, the guidance image is obtained from a noisy image by using an adaptive non-local mean filter. The spread of the kernel is adaptively by controlled by implementing the concept of edgeness. In the second phase, the noisy images and the guidance images are provided to the guided image filter as input in order to produce a noise-free image. The improved performance of the proposed method is investigated by conducting experiments on standard datasets that contain magnetic resonance images. The results show that the proposed scheme is superior over the existing approaches.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.21 no.10
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• pp.1886-1891
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• 2017

Denoising which is one of major research topics in the image processing deals with recovering the noisy images. Natural images are well known not only for their local but also nonlocal similarity. Patterns of unique edges and texture which are crucial for understanding the image are repeated over the nonlocal region. In this paper, a nonlocal similarity based denoising algorithm is proposed. First for every blocks of the noisy image, nonlocal similar blocks are gathered to construct a overcomplete data set which are inherently sparse in the transform domain due to the characteristics of the images. Then, the sparse transform coefficients are filtered to suppress the non-sparse additive noise. Finally, the image is recovered by aggregating the overcomplete estimates of each pixel. Performance experiments with several images show that the proposed algorithm outperforms the conventional methods in removing the additive Gaussian noise effectively while preserving the image details.

• Ocean Science Journal
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• v.40 no.4
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• pp.213-220
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• 2005

In this paper, image processing technique that reduces video images of buoy motion to yield time series of image coordinates of buoy objects will be investigated. The buoy motion images are noisy due to time-varying brightness as well as non-uniform background illumination. The occurrence of boats, wakes, and wind-induced white caps interferes significantly in recognition of buoy objects. Thus, semi-automated procedures consisting of object recognition and image measurement aspects will be conducted. These offer more satisfactory results than a manual process. Spectral analysis shows that the image coordinates of buoy objects represent wave motion well, indicating its usefulness in the analysis of wave characteristics.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.646-654
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• 2019

Image denoising is considered as a key factor for capturing high-quality photos in digital cameras. Thus far, several image denoising methods have been proposed in the past decade. In addition, previous studies either relied on deep learning-based approaches or used the hand-crafted filters. Unfortunately, the previous method mostly emphasized on image denoising regardless of preserving or recovering the detail information in result images. This study proposes an detail extraction network to estimate detail information from a noisy input image. Moreover, the extracted detail information is utilized to enhance the final denoised image. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method can outperform the existing works by a subjective measurement.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.28 no.8C
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• pp.795-802
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• 2003

It is very important to construct statistical model in order to exactly estimate the signal variance from a noisy image. In order to estimate variance, information of neighboring region is used generally. The size of neighbor region is varied according to the regional characteristics of image. More accurate estimation of edge variance is due to smaller region of neighbor, on the other hands, larger region of neighbor is used to estimate the variance of flat region. By using estimated variance of original image, in general, Wiener filter is constructed, and it is applied to the noisy image. In this paper, we propose a new method for determining the range of neighbors to estimate the variance in wavelet domain. Firstly, a significance map is constructed using the parent-child relationship of wavelet domain. Based on the number of the significant wavelet coefficients, the range of neighbors is determined and then the variance of the original signal is estimated using ML(maximum likelihood method. Experimental results show that the proposed method yields better results than conventional methods for image denoising.