Abstract
This paper presents a wavelet-based linear minimum mean square-error estimation (LMMSE) scheme to exploit the strong wavelet interscale dependencies for image denoising. Using overcomplete wavelet expansion (OWE), we group the wavelet coefficients with the same spatial orientation at adjacent scales as a vector. The LMMSE algorithm is then applied to the vector variable. This scheme exploits the correlation information of wavelet scales to improve noise removal. To calculate the statistics of wavelet coefficients more adaptively, we classify them into different clusters by the context modeling technique, which yields a good local discrimination between edge structures and backgrounds. Experiments show that the proposed scheme outperforms some existing denoising methods. And a biorthogonal wavelet, which well characterizes the interscale dependencies, is found very suitable for the scheme.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 97-100 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings |
Volume | 6 |
Publication status | Published - 25 Sep 2003 |
Event | 2003 IEEE International Conference on Accoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing - Hong Kong, Hong Kong Duration: 6 Apr 2003 → 10 Apr 2003 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Software
- Signal Processing
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering