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Adaptive Image Denoising by Mixture Adaptation.

Enming Luo, Stanley H Chan, Truong Q Nguyen

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing : a Publication of the IEEE Signal Processing Society

|July 15, 2016

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This study introduces an adaptive learning method for image denoising using expectation-maximization (EM) adaptation. The algorithm refines generic image priors for specific noisy images, improving denoising performance over existing methods.

Area of Science:

Computer Vision
Image Processing
Machine Learning

Background:

Image denoising is crucial for enhancing image quality.
Existing methods often combine internal and external image statistics heuristically.
Patch-based image priors are essential for effective denoising.

Purpose of the Study:

To propose a novel adaptive learning procedure for patch-based image priors in image denoising.
To rigorously derive the expectation-maximization (EM) adaptation algorithm from a Bayesian hyper-prior perspective.
To address computational complexity and adapt the algorithm for cases lacking a clean image.

Main Methods:

Developed an expectation-maximization (EM) adaptation algorithm to learn patch-based image priors.
Adapted generic priors from external databases to specific noisy images.

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Modified the EM adaptation for denoising without a latent clean image using pre-filtering.

Main Results:

The proposed EM adaptation algorithm consistently improved denoising results compared to non-adapted methods.
Experimental results demonstrated the superiority of the adaptation algorithm over several state-of-the-art denoising techniques.
The algorithm effectively generates specific priors tailored to noisy images.

Conclusions:

The EM adaptation provides a rigorous and effective approach to learning adaptive image priors for denoising.
The proposed method offers significant improvements in image denoising performance.
The algorithm is adaptable and performs well even without access to the original clean image.