Title :
Stabilized thresholding with generalized sure for image denoising
Author :
Huang, Hsin-Cheng ; Lee, Thomas C M
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Stat. Sci., Acad. Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
Abstract :
We develop a novel stabilized thresholding methodology for image denoising. Main features of this new proposal include a new thresholding rule that repairs the known drawbacks of both hard and soft thresholding, and the use of the generalized Stein´s unbiased risk estimation technique for automatic parameter selection. Another advantage of our approach is that it can be applied to different types of noise distributions. In this paper we consider both the Gaussian and mixture of Gaussians, where the latter case can be used to model data with outliers. Practical performance of our proposal is evaluated via numerical experiments.
Keywords :
Gaussian distribution; image denoising; image segmentation; Gaussian mixture; automatic parameter selection; generalized Stein unbiased risk estimation technique; image denoising; noise distributions; numerical experiments; outliers; stabilized thresholding methodology; Estimation; Gaussian distribution; Image denoising; Noise; Noise reduction; Robustness; Smoothing methods; Gaussian mixtures; Stein´s unbiased risk estimation (SURE); generalized Stein´s unbiased risk estimation (GSURE); robust denoising; stabilization; wavelet thresholding;
Conference_Titel :
Image Processing (ICIP), 2010 17th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Hong Kong
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7992-4
Electronic_ISBN :
1522-4880
DOI :
10.1109/ICIP.2010.5652353