title: Edge-preserving image denoising and estimation of discontinuous surfaces.
abstract: In this paper, we are interested in the problem of estimating a discontinuous surface from noisy data. A novel procedure for this problem is proposed based on local linear kernel smoothing, in which local neighborhoods are adapted to the local smoothness of the surface measured by the observed data. The procedure can therefore remove noise correctly in continuity regions of the surface and preserve discontinuities at the same time. Since an image can be regarded as a surface of the image intensity function and such a surface has discontinuities at the outlines of objects, this procedure can be applied directly to image denoising. Numerical studies show that it works well in applications, compared to some existing procedures.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University Center of Statistics, University of Leuven, de Croylaan 54, B-3001 Heverlee, Belgium. irene.gijbels@wis.kuleuven.be
authors.forename: Irène
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Gijbels
authors.forename: Alexandre
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lambert
authors.forename: Peihua
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Qiu
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D016477:Artifacts; D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D003198:Computer Simulation; D007089:Image Enhancement / Q000379:methods*; D007090:Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D015233:Models, Statistical; D010363:Pattern Recognition, Automated / Q000379:methods*