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A patch-based non-local means method for image denoising

  • Northwestern Polytechnical University Xian

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Abstract

In this paper, a revised version of non-local means denoising method is proposed. Different from the original non-local means method in which the algorithm is processed on a pixel-wise basis, the proposed method using image patches to implement non-local means denoising. Given that some details, texture and structure information will be smoothed out when performing weighted averaging, we carry out a pre-processing procedure to classify the image patches into several clusters according to their feature similarities. Later, the weights needed in non-local means algorithm is calculated between image patches in the same cluster. By this means, the above mentioned detail, texture and structure can be preserved due to the redundancy in similar image patches. We illustrate the overall algorithm's performance via several experiments. The results indicate the effectiveness of the proposed method.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIntelligent Science and Intelligent Data Engineering - Third Sino-Foreign-Interchange Workshop, IScIDE 2012, Revised Selected Papers
Pages582-589
Number of pages8
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013
Event3rd Sino-Foreign-Interchange Workshop on Intelligent Science and Intelligent Data Engineering, IScIDE 2012 - Nanjing, China
Duration: 15 Oct 201217 Oct 2012

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume7751 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference3rd Sino-Foreign-Interchange Workshop on Intelligent Science and Intelligent Data Engineering, IScIDE 2012
Country/TerritoryChina
CityNanjing
Period15/10/1217/10/12

Keywords

  • Image denoising
  • K-means clustering
  • Non-local means
  • Patch-based

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