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Image denoising by supervised adaptive fusion of decomposed images restored using wave atom, curvelet and wavelet transform

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This paper presents an efficient image denoising method that adaptively combines the features of wavelets, wave atoms and curvelets. Wavelet shrinkage is used to denoise the smooth regions in the image while wave atoms are employed to denoise the textures, and the edges will take advantage of curvelet denoising. The received noisy image is firstly decomposed into a homogenous (smooth/cartoon) part and a textural part. The cartoon part of the noisy image is denoised using wavelet transform, and the texture part of the noisy image is denoised using wave atoms. The two denoised images are then fused adaptively. For adaptive fusion, different weights are chosen from the variance map of the denoised texture image. Further improvement in denoising results is achieved by denoising the edges through curvelet transform. The information about edge location is gathered from the variance map of denoised cartoon image. The denoised image results in perfect presentation of the smooth regions and efficient preservation of textures and edges in the image.

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Swami, P.D., Jain, A. Image denoising by supervised adaptive fusion of decomposed images restored using wave atom, curvelet and wavelet transform. SIViP 8, 443–459 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11760-012-0343-z

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