Poisson Noise Reduction with Higher-Order Natural Image Prior Model

DOI10.1137/16M1072930zbMATH Open1352.49006arXiv1609.05722OpenAlexW2523491669MaRDI QIDQ3179613FDOQ3179613

Authors: Wensen Feng, Yunjin Chen, H. Qiao 

Publication date: 19 December 2016

Published in: SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Poisson denoising is an essential issue for various imaging applications, such as night vision, medical imaging and microscopy. State-of-the-art approaches are clearly dominated by patch-based non-local methods in recent years. In this paper, we aim to propose a local Poisson denoising model with both structure simplicity and good performance. To this end, we consider a variational modeling to integrate the so-called Fields of Experts (FoE) image prior, that has proven an effective higher-order Markov Random Fields (MRF) model for many classic image restoration problems. We exploit several feasible variational variants for this task. We start with a direct modeling in the original image domain by taking into account the Poisson noise statistics, which performs generally well for the cases of high SNR. However, this strategy encounters problem in cases of low SNR. Then we turn to an alternative modeling strategy by using the Anscombe transform and Gaussian statistics derived data term. We retrain the FoE prior model directly in the transform domain. With the newly trained FoE model, we end up with a local variational model providing strongly competitive results against state-of-the-art non-local approaches, meanwhile bearing the property of simple structure. Furthermore, our proposed model comes along with an additional advantage, that the inference is very efficient as it is well-suited for parallel computation on GPUs. For images of size $512imes512$, our GPU implementation takes less than 1 second to produce state-of-the-art Poisson denoising performance.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.05722

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zbMATH Keywords

nonconvex optimizationPoisson denoisingfields of expertsanscombe root transformation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical optimization and variational techniques (65K10) Learning and adaptive systems in artificial intelligence (68T05) Problem solving in the context of artificial intelligence (heuristics, search strategies, etc.) (68T20) Nonconvex programming, global optimization (90C26) Computing methodologies for image processing (68U10) Variational inequalities (49J40) Inverse problems in optimal control (49N45)

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Uses Software

• L-BFGS
• iPiano
• SPIRAL
• BM3D

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