Journal
JOURNAL OF VISUAL COMMUNICATION AND IMAGE REPRESENTATION
Volume 30, Issue -, Pages 117-124Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvcir.2015.03.005
Keywords
Image denoising; Circulant similarity; Patch filter; Nonlocal; Gaussian kernel; Circulant matrix; Low-rank method; Fast Fourier transform
Funding
- Natural Science Foundation of China [61401098]
- Open Project Program of the State Key Lab of CAD&CG, Zhejiang University [A1415]
- Scientific Research Starting Foundation of Fuzhou University [022575]
- Science and Technology Development Foundation of Fuzhou University [2014-XY-21]
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A patch based image denoising method is developed in this paper by introducing a new type of image self-similarity. This self-similarity is obtained by cyclic shift, which is called circulant similarity. Given a corrupted image patch, it can be estimated by incorporating circulant similarity into a weighted averaging filter. By choosing an appropriate kernel as weight function, the patch filter is implemented by circular convolution, and can be efficiently solved using fast Fourier transform. In addition, the circulant similarity can be enhanced by using nonlocal modeling. We stack the similar image patches into 3D groups, and propose a denoising scheme based on group estimation across the patches. Numerical experiments demonstrate that the proposed method with local circulant similarity outperforms much its local filtering based counterparts, and the proposed method with nonlocal circulant similarity shows very competitive performance with state-of-the-art denoising method, especially on images corrupted by strong noise. (C) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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