title: Image denoising using total least squares.
abstract: In this paper, we present a method for removing noise from digital images corrupted with additive, multiplicative, and mixed noise. An image patch from an ideal image is modeled as a linear combination of image patches from the noisy image. We propose to fit this model to the real-world image data in the total least square (TLS) sense, because the TLS formulation allows us to take into account the uncertainties in the measured data. We develop a method to reduce the contribution from the irrelevant image patches, which will sharpen the edges and reduce edge artifacts at the same time. Although the proposed algorithm is computationally demanding, the image quality of the output image demonstrates the effectiveness of the TLS algorithms.
authors.affiliation: Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA. hirakawa@stat.harvard.edu
authors.forename: Keigo
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hirakawa
authors.forename: Thomas W
authors.initials: TW
authors.lastname: Parks
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D016477:Artifacts; D003196:Computer Graphics; D003198:Computer Simulation; D007089:Image Enhancement / Q000379:methods*; D007090:Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D016018:Least-Squares Analysis; D015233:Models, Statistical; D009716:Numerical Analysis, Computer-Assisted; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted