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Image denoising with less artefacts: Novel non-linear filtering on fast patch reorderings

Image and Video Processing 2020-02-04 v1 Signal Processing

Abstract

Leading denoising methods such as 3D block matching (BM3D) are patch-based. However, they can suffer from frequency domain artefacts and require to specify explicit noise models. We present a patch-based method that avoids these drawbacks. It combines a simple and fast patch reordering with a non-linear smoothing. The smoothing rewards both patch and pixel similarities in a multiplicative way. We perform experiments on real world images with additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN), and on electron microscopy data with a more general additive noise model. Our filter outperforms BM3D in 77% of the experiments, with improvements of up to 29% with respect to the mean squared error.

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@article{arxiv.2002.00638,
  title  = {Image denoising with less artefacts: Novel non-linear filtering on fast patch reorderings},
  author = {Kireeti Bodduna and Joachim Weickert},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.00638},
  year   = {2020}
}
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