Spatially adaptive alpha-rooting in BM3D sharpening

Markku Mäkitalo; Alessandro Foi

doi:10.1117/12.872606

3 February 2011 Spatially adaptive alpha-rooting in BM3D sharpening

Markku Mäkitalo, Alessandro Foi

Proceedings Volume 7870, Image Processing: Algorithms and Systems IX; 787012 (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.872606
Event: IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging, 2011, San Francisco Airport, California, United States

Abstract

The block-matching and 3-D filtering (BM3D) algorithm is currently one of the most powerful and effective image denoising procedures. It exploits a specific nonlocal image modelling through grouping and collaborative filtering. Grouping finds mutually similar 2-D image blocks and stacks them together in 3-D arrays. Collaborative filtering produces individual estimates of all grouped blocks by filtering them jointly, through transform-domain shrinkage of the 3-D arrays (groups). BM3D can be combined with transform-domain alpha-rooting in order to simultaneously sharpen and denoise the image. Specifically, the thresholded 3-D transform-domain coefficients are modified by taking the alpha-root of their magnitude for some alpha > 1, thus amplifying the differences both within and between the grouped blocks. While one can use a constant (global) alpha throughout the entire image, further performance can be achieved by allowing different degrees of sharpening in different parts of the image, based on content-dependent information. We propose to vary the value of alpha used for sharpening a group through weighted estimates of the low-frequency, edge, and high-frequency content of the average block in the group. This is shown to be a viable approach for image sharpening, and in particular it can provide an improvement (both visually and in terms of PSNR) over its global non-adaptive counterpart.

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Markku Mäkitalo and Alessandro Foi "Spatially adaptive alpha-rooting in BM3D sharpening", Proc. SPIE 7870, Image Processing: Algorithms and Systems IX, 787012 (3 February 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.872606

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