Title
How to SAIF-ly Boost Denoising Performance.
Abstract
Spatial domain image filters (e.g., bilateral filter, non-local means, locally adaptive regression kernel) have achieved great success in denoising. Their overall performance, however, has not generally surpassed the leading transform domain-based filters (such as BM3-D). One important reason is that spatial domain filters lack efficiency to adaptively fine tune their denoising strength; something that is relatively easy to do in transform domain method with shrinkage operators. In the pixel domain, the smoothing strength is usually controlled globally by, for example, tuning a regularization parameter. In this paper, we propose spatially adaptive iterative filtering (SAIF)SAIF is the Middle Eastern/Arabic name for sword. This acronym somehow seems appropriate for what the algorithm does by precisely tuning the value of the iteration number. a new strategy to control the denoising strength locally for any spatial domain method. This approach is capable of filtering local image content iteratively using the given base filter, and the type of iteration and the iteration number are automatically optimized with respect to estimated risk (i.e., mean-squared error). In exploiting the estimated local signal-to-noise-ratio, we also present a new risk estimator that is different from the often-employed SURE method, and exceeds its performance in many cases. Experiments illustrate that our strategy can significantly relax the base algorithm's sensitivity to its tuning (smoothing) parameters, and effectively boost the performance of several existing denoising filters to generate state-of-the-art results under both simulated and practical conditions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/TIP.2012.2231691
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
boosting,iterative methods,bilateral filter,adaptive filters,kernel,noise reduction,signal to noise ratio,mean squared error
Kernel (linear algebra),Pattern recognition,Non-local means,Iterative method,Filter (signal processing),Smoothing,Artificial intelligence,Adaptive filter,Bilateral filter,Mathematics,Estimator
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
22
4
1057-7149
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
12
0.53
10
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hossein Talebi1373.61
Xiang Zhu226410.86
Peyman Milanfar33284155.61
Talebi, H.4120.53