Mixed image denoising using weighted coding and non-local similarity

Abstract

Denoising an image is a heuristic and objective process. Still, underlying noise that is predominant in the images reduces the quality. Additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) and impulse noise are the most exploited types of noise. For a specified amount of density, a combination of AWGN and impulse noise may distract the entire signal causing a loss in the magnitude. This paper presents a denoising model by exploiting such a combination that uses an overcomplete dictionary by sparse based denoising scheme with suitable regularization terms. A weight matrix is defined to optimize the operation at specific locations of the image. Finally, the use of non-local similarity features improves the quality of reconstructed images. The weight matrix maps the regions where the effect of multiple noise sources is present. The results proved the superiority of the proposed technique. Simulation of the proposed technique on many images with different quantities of noise produced an improvement of up to 2 dB when the noise effect is more when compared to the state-of-the-art techniques.