title: A New Method for Nonlocal Means Image Denoising Using Multiple Images.
abstract: The basic principle of nonlocal means is to denoise a pixel using the weighted average of the neighbourhood pixels, while the weight is decided by the similarity of these pixels. The key issue of the nonlocal means method is how to select similar patches and design the weight of them. There are two main contributions of this paper: The first contribution is that we use two images to denoise the pixel. These two noised images are with the same noise deviation. Instead of using only one image, we calculate the weight from two noised images. After the first denoising process, we get a pre-denoised image and a residual image. The second contribution is combining the nonlocal property between residual image and pre-denoised image. The improved nonlocal means method pays more attention on the similarity than the original one, which turns out to be very effective in eliminating gaussian noise. Experimental results with simulated data are provided.
authors.affiliation: Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Broadband Network & Multimedia, Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen, China.|Shenzhen Institute of Future Media Technology, Shenzhen, China.
authors.forename: Xingzheng
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Broadband Network & Multimedia, Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen, China.|Shenzhen Institute of Future Media Technology, Shenzhen, China.
authors.forename: Haoqian
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Broadband Network & Multimedia, Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen, China.|Shenzhen Institute of Future Media Technology, Shenzhen, China.
authors.forename: Jiangfeng
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.affiliation: Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Broadband Network & Multimedia, Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen, China.|Shenzhen Institute of Future Media Technology, Shenzhen, China.
authors.forename: Yongbing
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D007089:Image Enhancement / Q000379:methods*; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D059629:Signal-To-Noise Ratio