Review Paper on Image Denoising Techniques

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Review Paper on Image Denoising Techniques
Ms. Shefali A. Uplenchwar1, Mrs. P. J. Suryawanshi2
1MTech, Dept. of Electronics Engineering, PCE, Maharashtra, India
2Professor, Dept. of Electronics Engineering, PCE, Maharashtra, India
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Abstract - In various fields and applications useofimagesis
becoming increasingly popular like in field of medical,
education etc. Problem that arises after denoising process is
the destruction of the image edge structures. Forthisthereare
several techniques proposed by other authors for image
denoising as well as edge preservations. In these paper, we
aim to provide a review of some of those techniques that can
be used in image denoising. This paper outlines the brief
description of noise, types of noise, image denoising and then
the review of different techniques and their approaches to
remove that noise. The aim of this review paper is to provide
some brief and useful knowledge of denoising techniques for
applications using images to provide an ease of selecting the
optimal technique according to their needs.
Key Words: Image denoising, Gaussian noise, Salt-&-
Pepper noise, Poission noise, MMSE, PSNR.
1. INTRODUCTION
Visual information transmitted in the form of digital images
is becoming a major method of communication in the
modern age, but the image obtained after transmission is
often corrupted with noise. Noise is the result of errors in
image acquisition process that result in pixel values that do
not reflect the true intensities of the real scene. Thereceived
image needs processing before it can be utilized as an input
for decision making. Image denoising involves the
manipulation of the image data to produce a visually high
quality image. Different noise models including additiveand
multiplicative types are used e.g gaussian noise, salt and
pepper noise and Poisson noise. Selection of the denoising
algorithm is application dependent therefore, it isnecessary
to have knowledge about the noise present in the image so
as to select the appropriate denoising algorithm. The
filtering approach has been proved to be the best when the
image is corrupted with salt and pepper noise. The scope of
the paper is to focus on noise removal techniquesfornatural
images using statistical and non statistical method.
1.1 TYPES OF NOISE
Gaussian noise – One of the mostoccurringnoiseisGaussian
noise. Principal sources of Gaussian noise arise during
acquisition e.g. sensor noise caused by poor illumination
and/or high temperature, and/or transmission e.g.
electronic circuit noise. Gaussian noise representsstatistical
noise having probability density function(PDF)equal tothat
of the normal distribution, which is also known as the
Gaussian distribution. In other words, the values that the
noise can take on are Gaussian-distributed. The probability
density function of a Gaussianrandomvariable isgiven by:
Where represents the grey level µ the mean value and σ
standard deviation. The standard model of this noise is
additive, independent at each pixel and independent of the
signal intensity, caused primarily by thermal noise. The
mean of each distributed elements or pixels of an imagethat
is affected by Gaussian noise is zero. It means that Gaussian
noise equally affects each and every pixel of an image.
Salt-and-pepper noise – Fat-tail distributed or "impulsive"
noise is sometimes called salt-and-pepper noise. Any image
having salt-and-pepper noise will have dark pixels in bright
regions and bright pixels in dark regions. In salt-and-pepper
noise corresponding value for black pixels is 0 and for white
pixels the corresponding value is 1.Hencetheimageaffected
by this noise either have extreme low value or have extreme
high value for pixels i.e., 0 or 1.Given the probability r (with
0<= r<=1) that a pixel is corrupted, we can introduce salt-
and-pepper noise in an image by setting a fraction of r/2
randomly selected pixels to black, and another fraction of
r/2 randomly selected pixels to white. This type of noise can
be caused by analog-to-digital converter errors, bit errorsin
transmission, etc. Elimination of salt-and-pepper noise can
be done by using dark frame subtraction and interpolating
around dark/bright pixels.
Poission noise- This noise is seen due to the statistical
nature of electromagnetic wavessuchasx-rays,visiblelights
and gamma rays. The x-ray and gamma ray sources emitted
number of photons per unit time. These sources are having
random fluctuation of photons. Result gathered image has
spatial and temporal randomness. In the lighter parts of an
image there is a dominant noise from an imagesensorwhich
is typically caused by statistical quantumfluctuations,thatis,
variation in the number of photons sensed at a given
exposure level called photon shot noise. Shot noise followsa
Poisson distribution, which is somehow similar to Gaussian.

2. PROPOSED METHOD
In this paper we propose to use image denoising by using
statistical and non statistical methods.Fig1.showstheblock
diagram of the proposed method.
F
FIG-1: Block Diagram of Proposed Method
As shown in the block diagram first the imageisdividedinto
sub blocks then each sub block is given to a statistical
processor which find out the parameter for the blocks.
These parameter will defer for noisy & non noisy blocks.
This difference help us to identify the block which have
noise. These block will replaced with the information or
knowledge from neighbouring blocks. Our approach will be
statistical approach, where we will first evaluate nature of
noise by gathering the knowledge from the nearby pixel and
then refine the amount of noise present in the image, this
will help for denoising of image irrespective on the noise.
FIG-2: Comparision of Denoised ImageUsingNonStatistical
& Statistical Method
As shown in Fig 2, first we add the noise such as salt and
pepper noise, then we apply the nonstatistical parameter
we got the blur image. Also apply the statistical parameter
to the noisy image, we got the image similar to the original
image. By applying nonstatistical parameterPSNRdecreases
and MMSE increases & by applying statistical parameter
PSNR increases and MMSE decreases.
2.1 NOISE REMOVING TECHNIQUES
Median Filtering–Median filter is a simple and powerful
non-linear filter which is based on order statics, whose
response is based on the ranking of pixel valuescontainedin
the filter region. It is easy to implement method of
smoothing images. The medianfilteralsofollowsthemoving
window principle similar to the mean filter. A 3*3, 5*5, or
7*7 kernel of the pixels is scanned over pixel matrix of the
entire image. In this filter, we do not replace the pixel value
of the image with the mean of all neighboring pixel values;
we replace it with the median value. Median filteringisdone
by, first sorting all the pixel values from the surrounds
neighborhood into numerical order and then replacing the
pixel being considered with the middle pixel value.
Adaptive Filtering- Adaptive filter is performed on the
degraded image that contains original image and noise. The
mean and variance are the two statistical measures that a
local adaptive filter depends with a defined mxn window
region. The adaptive filter is more selective than a
comparable linear filter, preserving edges and other high-
frequency parts of an image. The wiener2 function applies a
Wiener filter (a type of linear filter) to an image adaptively,
tailoring itself to the local image variance. Where the
variance is large, wiener2 performs little smoothing. Where
the variance is small, wiener2 performs more smoothing.
Another method for removing noise is to evolve the image

under a smoothing partial differential equation similar to
the heat equation which is called anisotropic diffusion.
Wiener Filter: The main aim of this technique is to filter out
noise that has corrupted the signal. It is kind of statistical
approach. For the designing of this filter one should know
the spectral properties of the original signal ,the noise and
linear time-variant filter whose output should be as close as
to the original as possible. The Wiener filter minimizes the
mean square error between the estimated random process
and the desired process.
3. CONCLUSIONS
In this paper various performance parametersarediscussed
which are used to compare the effectiveness of filtering
techniques. Mostly Peak signal-to-noise ratio parameter
is used for measuring the effectiveness of any filter. The
higher PSNR, gives the better quality of image. Each filter
work differently on different types of noises. Median filter
works well for Salt and Pepper noise where as wiener filter
works well for removing Poisson noise.
REFERENCES
[1] Enming Luo, Student Member, IEEE, Stanley H. Chan,
Member, IEEE, and Truong Q. Nguyen, Fellow, IEEE
“Adaptive ImageDenoising byTargetedDatabases”IEEE
Transactions On Image Processing, Vol. 24, No. 7, July
2015.
[2] M.Raghav and S.Raheja “Image Denoising Techniques:
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And Computer Science ISSN:2319-7242 Volume 3 Issue
5 May, 2014 Page No. 5637-5641.
[3] Sukhjinder Kaur “Noise Types and Various Removal
Techniques”International Journal ofAdvancedResearch
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(IJARECE) Volume 4, Issue 2, February 2015
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Techniques for Facilitating the Process Selection to
Determine the Best Suitable Approach for any given
image Type” International Journal of Engineering and
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October 2014

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