Least squares support vector regression and interval type-2 fuzzy density weight for scene denoising

Abstract

Support vector machines are the popular machine learning techniques. Its variant least squares support vector regression (LS-SVR) is effective for image denoising. However, the fitting of the samples contaminated by noises in the training phase will result in the fact that LS-SVR cannot work well when noise level is too far from it or noise density is high. Type-2 fuzzy sets and systems have been shown to be a more promising method to manifest the uncertainties. Various noises would be taken as uncertainties in scene images. By integrating the design of learning weights with type-2 fuzzy sets, a systematic design methodology of interval type-2 fuzzy density weighted support vector regression (IT2FDW-SVR) model for scene denoising is presented to address the problem of sample uncertainty in scene images. A novel strategy is used to design the learning weights, which is similar to the selection of human experience. To handle the uncertainty of sample density, interval type-2 fuzzy logic system (IT2FLS) is employed to deduce the fuzzy learning weights (IT2FDW) in the IT2FDW-SVR, which is an extension of the previously weighted SVR. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method can achieve better performances in terms of both objective and subjective evaluations than those state-of-the-art denoising techniques.