Noise Reduction in Images: Some Recent Edge-Preserving Methods

Winkler, Gerhard; Aurich, Volker; Hahn, Klaus; Martin, A. und Rodenacker, K. (1998): Noise Reduction in Images: Some Recent Edge-Preserving Methods. Sonderforschungsbereich 386, Discussion Paper 138

Abstract

We introduce some recent and very recent smoothing methods which focus on the preservation of boundaries, spikes and canyons in presence of noise. We try to point out basic principles they have in common; the most important one is the robustness aspect. It is reflected by the use of `cup functions' in the statistical loss functions instead of squares; such cup functions were introduced early in robust statistics to down weight outliers. Basically, they are variants of truncated squares. We discuss all the methods in the common framework of `energy functions', i.e we associate to (most of) the algorithms a `loss function' in such a fashion that the output of the algorithm or the `estimate' is a global or local minimum of this loss function. The third aspect we pursue is the correspondence between loss functions and their local minima and nonlinear filters. We shall argue that the nonlinear filters can be interpreted as variants of gradient descent on the loss functions. This way we can show that some (robust) M-estimators and some nonlinear filters produce almost the same result.

• Dokumententyp: Paper
• Fakultät: Mathematik, Informatik und Statistik > Statistik > Sonderforschungsbereich 386 ; Sonderforschungsbereiche > Sonderforschungsbereich 386
• Themengebiete: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik > 510 Mathematik
• Sprache: Englisch