Multiplicative Noise Removal via a Novel Variational Model

Multiplicative noise appears in various image processing applications, such as synthetic aperture radar, ultrasound imaging, single particle emission-computed tomography, and positron emission tomography. Hence multiplicative noise removal is of momentous significance in coherent imaging systems and...

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Main Authors: Li-Li Huang, Liang Xiao, Zhi-Hui Wei
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2010-01-01
Series:EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/250768
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Summary:Multiplicative noise appears in various image processing applications, such as synthetic aperture radar, ultrasound imaging, single particle emission-computed tomography, and positron emission tomography. Hence multiplicative noise removal is of momentous significance in coherent imaging systems and various image processing applications. This paper proposes a nonconvex Bayesian type variational model for multiplicative noise removal which includes the total variation (TV) and the Weberized TV as regularizer. We study the issues of existence and uniqueness of a minimizer for this variational model. Moreover, we develop a linearized gradient method to solve the associated Euler-Lagrange equation via a fixed-point iteration. Our experimental results show that the proposed model has good performance.
ISSN:1687-5176
1687-5281