EM algorithm-based adaptive custom thresholding for image denoising in wavelet domain
✍ Scribed by S. Selvakumar Raja; Mala John
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 159 KB
- Volume
- 19
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0899-9457
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
In this article, a novel denoising technique based on custom thresholding operating in the wavelet transform domain is proposed. The denoising process is spatially adaptive and also sub‐band adaptive. To render the denoising algorithm space adaptive, a Vector Quantization (VQ)‐based algorithm is used. The design of the VQ is based on Expectation Maximization (EM) algorithm. The results of the algorithm is demonstrated on SAR images corrupted by speckle noise. Experimental results show that Custom thresholding function outperforms the traditional soft, hard, and Bayes threshoding functions, improving the denoised results significantly in terms of Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR). © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Imaging Syst Technol, 19, 175–178, 2009