Journal
JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC IMAGING
Volume 28, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
SPIE-SOC PHOTO-OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION ENGINEERS
DOI: 10.1117/1.JEI.28.3.033014
Keywords
image denoising; prior learning; sparse coding; dictionary learning
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61877038]
- Science Research and Development Program of Shaanxi Province of China [2016NY-176]
- Natural Science Basic Research Plan in Shaanxi Province of China [2018JM6068]
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Image prior and sparse coding learning methods have important uses in image denoising. Many denoising methods learn priors either from the noisy image itself or an external clean image dataset. But using only these as priors does not always reconstruct the image effectively. In addition, when the image is corrupted by noise, the local sparse coding coefficient obtained from a noisy image patch is inaccurate, restricting denoising performance. We present a noise removal framework based on external prior learning and an internal mean sparse coding method, making use of the innate sparsity and nonlocal self-similarity (NSS) of natural images. Specifically, we first obtain external priors from a clean natural image dataset by Gaussian mixture model. The external priors are applied to guide the subspace clustering of internal noisy image patches, and a compact dictionary is generated for each internal noisy patch cluster. Then an internal mean sparse coding strategy based on NSS is introduced into the sparse representation model, whose regularization parameters then are deduced through a Bayesian framework. An iterative shrinkage method is employed to solve the l(1)-optimization problem in the sparse representation model. Application of the noise removal model to 16 test images demonstrates denoising performance exceeding other competing methods. (C) 2019 SPIE and IS&T
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