Hard color-shrinkage for color-image processing of a digital color camera

Takahiro Saito; Yasutaka Ueda; Nobuhiro Fujii; Takashi Komatsu

doi:10.1117/12.838564

18 January 2010 Hard color-shrinkage for color-image processing of a digital color camera

Takahiro Saito, Yasutaka Ueda, Nobuhiro Fujii, Takashi Komatsu

Proceedings Volume 7537, Digital Photography VI; 75370Q (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.838564
Event: IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging, 2010, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

The classic shrinkage works well for monochrome-image denoising. To utilize inter-channel color correlations, a noisy image undergoes the color-transformation from the RGB to the luminance-and-chrominance color space, and the luminance and the chrominance components are separately denoised. However, this approach cannot cope with signaldependent noise of a digital color camera. To utilize the noise's signal-dependencies, previously we have proposed the soft color-shrinkage where the inter-channel color correlations are directly utilized in the RGB color space. The soft color-shrinkage works well; but involves a large amount of computations. To alleviate the drawback, taking up the l⁰-l² optimization problem whose solution yields the hard shrinkage, we introduce the l0 norms of color differences and the l⁰ norms of color sums into the model, and derive hard color-shrinkage as its solution. For each triplet of three primary colors, the hard color-shrinkage has 24 feasible solutions, and from among them selects the optimal feasible solution giving the minimal energy. We propose a method to control its shrinkage parameters spatially-adaptively according to both the local image statistics and the noise's signal-dependencies, and apply the spatially-adaptive hard color-shrinkage to removal of signal-dependent noise in a shift-invariant wavelet transform domain. The hard color-shrinkage performs mostly better than the soft color-shrinkage, from objective and subjective viewpoints.

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Takahiro Saito, Yasutaka Ueda, Nobuhiro Fujii, and Takashi Komatsu "Hard color-shrinkage for color-image processing of a digital color camera", Proc. SPIE 7537, Digital Photography VI, 75370Q (18 January 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.838564

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