Removing Gaussian Noise by Optimization of Weights in Non-Local Means

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2011-09-26

arxiv.org/abs/1109.5640v1

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35 pages, 6 figures and 5 tables

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A new image denoising algorithm to deal with the additive Gaussian white noise model is given. Like the non-local means method, the filter is based on the weighted average of the observations in a neighborhood, with weights depending on the similarity of local patches. But in contrast to the non-local means filter, instead of using a fixed Gaussian kernel, we propose to choose the weights by minimizing a tight upper bound of mean square error. This approach makes it possible to define the weights adapted to the function at hand, mimicking the weights of the oracle filter. Under some regularity conditions on the target image, we show that the obtained estimator converges at the usual optimal rate. The proposed algorithm is parameter free in the sense that it automatically calculates the bandwidth of the smoothing kernel; it is fast and its implementation is straightforward. The performance of the new filter is illustrated by numerical simulations.

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