Defense Date
5-7-2009
Graduation Date
Summer 2009
Availability
Immediate Access
Submission Type
thesis
Degree Name
MS
Department
Computational Mathematics
School
McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts
Committee Chair
Stacey Levine
Committee Member
Carl Toews
Committee Member
Mark Mazur
Keywords
image processing, denoising, sparsity, geometric features
Abstract
Digital image denoising is a widely know problem in image processing. In this work, we focus on removing additive white Gaussian noise from a given image. We use a denoising method that was extended from the Sparseland model. This method builds sparse image patch representations using redundant dictionaries and has been shown to denoise images fairly well. We look to improve this method by adapting the dictionaries to more accurately represent specific image features. The image features were chosen to be the details, textures, and smooth regions of the image. Two different dictionaries were tested, the Discrete Cosine Transform and a learned dictionary based off of the noisy image patches. The dictionary's patch size was also varied to find the optimal patch size for denoising each image feature. Numerical and visual comparisons show the promise of this method improvement.
Format
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Sano, T. (2009). Sparse and Redundant Image Representations Using Adaptive Dictionaries in Digital Image Denoising (Master's thesis, Duquesne University). Retrieved from https://dsc.duq.edu/etd/1145