Relevant Publications
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- P. Chatterjee and P. Milanfar, Patch-based Near-Optimal Image Denoising , IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 21, no. 4, pp 1635-1649, April 2012.
- P. Chatterjee and P. Milanfar, Patch-based Locally Optimal Denoising, IEEE Intl. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP), Brussels, Belgium, pp. 2553-2556, Sep. 2011.
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Comparison with state-of-the-art methods
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Gray-scale images: Noise standard deviation 25
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Barbara image (512x512)
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Original image Noisy image Denoising results Non-Local Means [1] Field of Experts [2] K-SVD [3] BM3D [4] NLSM [5] |
Color images: 5% AWGN (standard deviation = 12 approx)
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Bears image (481x321)
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Original image Noisy image Denoising results Segmentation-based [6] Two color model [7] Color BM3D [4] |
Real noisy images: Noise characteristics unknown
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Statues image (600x400)
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Noisy image Denoising results Color BM3D [4] Neat Image [8] |




