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Image denoising is a fundamental operation in image processing and holds considerable practical importance for various real-world applications. Arguably several thousands of papers are dedicated to image denoising. In the past decade,…
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Denoising of coefficients in a sparse domain (e.g. wavelet) has been researched extensively because of its simplicity and effectiveness. Literature mainly has focused on designing the best global threshold. However, this paper proposes a…
We present an effective method for the matching of multimodal images. Accurate image matching is the basis of various applications, such as image registration and structure from motion. Conventional matching methods fail when handling noisy…
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The denoising of magnetic resonance (MR) images is a task of great importance for improving the acquired image quality. Many methods have been proposed in the literature to retrieve noise free images with good performances. Howerever, the…
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