Journal on Communications ›› 2020, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (10): 222-234.doi: 10.11959/j.issn.1000-436x.2020190

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Gamma norm minimization based image denoising algorithm

Hongyan WANG1,2,3,Tuo WANG2,Mian PAN4,Zumin WANG2()   

  1. 1 School of Information Science and technology,Zhejiang Sci-Tech University,Hangzhou 310018,China
    2 College of Information Engineering,Dalian University,Dalian 116622,China
    3 Faculty of Intelligent Manufacturing,Wuyi University,Jiangmen 529020,China
    4 School of Electronic Information,Hangzhou Dianzi University,Hangzhou 310018,China
  • Revised:2020-08-15 Online:2020-10-25 Published:2020-11-05
  • Supported by:
    The National Natural Science Foundation of China(61301258);The National Natural Science Foundation of China(61271379);The National Natural Science Foundation of China(61871164);China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(2016M590218)

Abstract:

Focusing on the issue of rather poor denoising performance of the traditional kernel norm minimization based method caused by the biased approximation of kernel norm to rank function,based on the low-rank theory,a gamma norm minimization based image denoising algorithm was developed.The noisy image was firstly divided into some overlapping patches via the proposed algorithm,and then several non-local image patches most similar to the current image patch were sought adaptively based on the structural similarity index to form the similar image patch matrix.Subsequently,the non-convex gamma norm could be exploited to obtain unbiased approximation of the matrix rank function such that the low-rank denoising model could be constructed.Finally,the obtained low-rank denoising optimization issue could be tackled on the basis of singular value decomposition,and therefore the denoised image patches could be re-constructed as a denoised image.Simulation results demonstrate that,compared to the existing state-of-the-art PID,NLM,BM3D,NNM,WNNM,DnCNN and FFDNet algorithms,the developed method can eliminate Gaussian noise more considerably and retrieve the original image details rather precisely.

Key words: image denoising, low-rank denoising model, non-convex optimization, gamma norm, structural similarity index

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