Title
Image Denoising Using Group Sparsity Residual And External Nonlocal Self-Similarity Prior
Abstract
Nonlocal image representation has been successfully used in many image-related inverse problems including denoising, deblurring and deblocking. However, due to a majority of reconstruction methods only exploit the nonlocal self-similarity (NSS) prior of the degraded observation image, it is very challenging to reconstruct the latent clean image directly from the noisy observation. In this paper we propose a novel model for image denoising via group sparsity residual and external NSS prior. To boost the performance of image de noising, the concept of group sparsity residual is proposed, and thus the problem of image denoising is transformed into one that reduces the group sparsity residual. Due to the fact that the groups contain a large amount of NSS information of natural images, we obtain a good estimation of the group sparse coefficients of the original image by the external NSS prior based on Gaussian Mixture model (GMM) learning and the group sparse coefficients of noisy image are used to approximate the estimation. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach not only outperforms many state-of-the-art methods, but also delivers the best qualitative denoising results with finer details and less ringing artifacts. Index Terms-Image denoising,
Year
Venue
Keywords
2017
2017 24TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON IMAGE PROCESSING (ICIP)
Image denoising, group sparsity residual, non local self-similarity, Gaussian Mixture model
DocType
Volume
ISSN
Conference
abs/1701.00723
1522-4880
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zhiyuan Zha1328.44
Zhang Xing-Gan23911.55
Qiong Wang3285.70
Yechao Bai4235.63
Lan Tang5397.39