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Blind Additive Gaussian White Noise Level Estimation from a Single Image by Employing Chi-Square Distribution
by Zhicheng Wang, Qing An, Zifan Zhu, Hao Fang and Zhenghua Huang
Entropy 2022, 24(11), 1518; https://doi.org/10.3390/e24111518 - 24 Oct 2022
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The additive Gaussian white noise (AGWN) level in real-life images is usually unknown, for which the empirical setting will make the denoising methods over-smooth fine structures or remove noise incompletely. The previous noise level estimation methods are easily lost in accurately estimating them [...] Read more.
The additive Gaussian white noise (AGWN) level in real-life images is usually unknown, for which the empirical setting will make the denoising methods over-smooth fine structures or remove noise incompletely. The previous noise level estimation methods are easily lost in accurately estimating them from images with complicated structures. To cope with this issue, we propose a novel noise level estimation scheme based on Chi-square distribution, including the following key points: First, a degraded image is divided into many image patches through a sliding window. Then, flat patches are selected by using a patch selection strategy on the gradient maps of those image patches. Next, the initial noise level is calculated by employing Chi-square distribution on the selected flat patches. Finally, the stable noise level is optimized by an iterative strategy. Quantitative, with association, to qualitative results of experiments on synthetic real-life images validate that the proposed noise level estimation method is effective and even superior to the state-of-the-art methods. Extensive experiments on noise removal using BM3D further illustrate that the proposed noise level estimation method is more beneficial for achieving favorable denoising performance with detail preservation. Full article
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