Computer Vision & Digital Image Processing

Image Restoration and Reconstruction II

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Dr. D. J. Jackson Lecture 12-1

Outline
Periodic noise Estimation of noise parameters Restoration in the presence of noise only spatial filtering

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Periodic noise
Periodic noise typically arises from interference during image acquisition Spatially dependent noise type Can be effectively reduced via frequency domain filtering

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Sample periodic images and their spectra

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Sample periodic images and their spectra

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Estimation of noise parameters

Noise parameters can often be estimated by observing the Fourier spectrum of the image
Periodic noise tends to produce frequency spikes

Parameters of noise PDFs may be known (partially) from sensor specification

Can still estimate them for a particular imaging setup One method
Capture a set of flat images from a known setup (i.e. a uniform gray surface under uniform illumination) Study characteristics of resulting image(s) to develop an indicator of system noise

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Estimation of noise parameters (continued)

If only a set of images already generated by a sensor are available, estimate the PDF function of the noise from small strips of reasonably constant background intensity Consider a subimage (S) and let ps(zi), i=0,1,2,L-1 denote the probability estimates of the intensities of the pixels in S. L is the number of possible intensities in the image The mean and the variance of the pixels in S are given by:

z = zi ps ( zi ) and = ( zi z ) 2 ps ( zi )
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Estimation of noise parameters (continued)

The shape of the noise histogram identifies the closest PDF match
If the shape is Gaussian, then the mean and variance are all that is needed to construct a model for the noise (i.e. the mean and the variance completely define the Gaussian PDF) If the shape is Rayleigh, then the Rayleigh shape parameters (a and b) can be calculated using the mean and variance If the noise is impulse, then a constant (with the exception of the noise) area of the image is needed to calculate Pa and Pb probabilities for the impulse PDF
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Histograms from noisy strips of an area of an image

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Restoration in the presence of noise only spatial filtering When only additive random noise is present, spatial filtering is commonly used to restore images Common types
Mean filters Order-Statistic filters Adaptive filters

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Dr. D. J. Jackson Lecture 12-10

Mean filters (arithmetic)

Arithmetic mean filter
Computes the average value of a corrupted image g(x,y) in the area defined by a window (neighborhood)

( x, y ) = 1 f g ( s, t ) mn ( s ,t )S xy
The operation is generally implemented using a spatial filter of size m*n in which all coefficients have value 1/mn A mean filter smoothes local variations in an image Noise is reduced as a result of blurring

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Mean filters (geometric)

Geometric mean filter
A restored pixel is given by the product of the pixels in an area defined by a window (neighborhood), raised to the power 1/mn
mn ( x, y ) = f g ( s, t ) ( s ,t )S xy
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Achieves smoothing comparable to the arithmetic mean filter, but tends to loose less detail in the process

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Arithmetic and geometric mean filter examples

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Mean filters (harmonic)

Harmonic mean filter
A restored pixel is given by the expression

( x, y ) = f

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1 g ( s, t )

Works well for salt noise (fails for pepper noise) Works well for Gaussian noise also

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Dr. D. J. Jackson Lecture 12-14

Mean filters (contraharmonic)

Contraharmonic mean filter
A restored pixel is given by the expression

( x, y ) = f

( s ,t )S xy

g ( s, t )

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( s ,t )S xy

g ( s, t )

Q is the order of the filter Works well for salt and pepper noise (cannot do both simultaneously) +Q eliminates pepper noise, -Q eliminates salt noise Q=0 arithmetic mean filter Q=-1 harmonic mean filter
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Contraharmonic mean filter examples

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Contraharmonic mean filter examples

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