Image noise reduction
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✎ This article/section is a stub — some half-sorted notes, not necessarily checked, not necessarily correct. Feel free to ignore, or tell me about it.
gaussian blur
(or other simple interpolating blurs)
Upsides:
- Simple. Fairly fast.
- does not introduce spurious detail
Downsides:
- indiscriminantly removes (high-)frequency content. a.k.a. "Smears everything"
median filtering
Upsides:
- Simple. Not quite as fast as you'ld think.
- rejects outliers; best example is rejecting salt and pepper noise
- will preserve edges better than e.g. linear interpolation
Downsides:
- can remove high-frequency signal
- the edge preservation depends on some conditions, so doesn't always happen. The mix can look odd.
total variation denoising
Varies amount of blur by the amount of variation near the pixel.
Which means it mostly lessens noise in otherwise flat regions, while leaving spikes and edges mostly intact.
Upsides:
- This tends to look more detailed than a basic mean filter, particularly on sharp images
Downsides:
- Can't really tell what real edges are; for subtler images it can be much like mean
See also:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_variation_denoising
- Playing with:
bilateral denoise
Reduce noise while preserving edges.
Averages based on their spatial closeness and radiometric similarity, and potentially other metrics. Like total-variance denoising in that it easily preserves edges, yet is often more true to photographic original than.
Playing with:
- http://scikit-image.org/docs/dev/auto_examples/plot_denoise.html
- http://scikit-image.org/docs/dev/api/skimage.restoration.html#denoise-bilateral
non-local means denoising
See also:
Anisotropic diffusion
See also:
Wiener filter
See also:
- http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~turkel/notes/wiener_theory.html
- https://www.clear.rice.edu/elec431/projects95/lords/wiener.html
- http://blogs.mathworks.com/steve/2007/11/02/image-deblurring-wiener-filter/
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiener_filter