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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2019

A Multiscale Denoising Framework Using Detection Theory with Application to Images from CMOS/CCD Sensors.

Khuram Naveed, Shoaib Ehsan, Klaus D McDonald-Maier, Naveed Ur Rehman

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Khuram NaveedDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, COMSATS University, Park Road, Islamabad 45550, Pakistan. khurram.naveed@comsats.edu.pk.ORCID 0000-0001-8286-6139
Shoaib EhsanSchool of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex, Colchester CO4 3SQ, UK. sehsan@essex.ac.uk.
Klaus D McDonald-MaierSchool of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex, Colchester CO4 3SQ, UK. kdm@essex.ac.uk.
Naveed Ur RehmanDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, COMSATS University, Park Road, Islamabad 45550, Pakistan. naveed.rehman@comsats.edu.pk.

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Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council EP/P017487/1 and EP/R02572X/1
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Abstract

Output from imaging sensors based on CMOS and CCD devices is prone to noise due to inherent electronic fluctuations and low photon count. The resulting noise in the acquired image could be effectively modelled as signal-dependent Poisson noise or as a mixture of Poisson and Gaussian noise. To that end, we propose a generalized framework based on detection theory and hypothesis testing coupled with the variance stability transformation (VST) for Poisson or Poisson⁻Gaussian denoising. VST transforms signal-dependent Poisson noise to a signal independent Gaussian noise with stable variance. Subsequently, multiscale transforms are employed on the noisy image to segregate signal and noise into separate coefficients. That facilitates the application of local binary hypothesis testing on multiple scales using empirical distribution function (EDF) for the purpose of detection and removal of noise. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed framework with different multiscale transforms and on a wide variety of input datasets.

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binary hypothesis testingCMOS/CCD image sensorsdetection theoryGaussian and Poisson denoisingmultiscalevariance stability transformation (VST)

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PMID30626102
PMCPMC6338905

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