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IMAGE DE-NOISING USING DOUBLE DENSITY WAVELET TRANSFORM BASED ADAPTIVE THRESHOLDING TECHNIQUE

D. GNANADURAI

Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering, Mepco Schlenk Engineering College, Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu, India

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V. SADASIVAM

Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Manonmanium Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, India

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https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219691305000701Cited by:15 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

This paper describes an efficient and adaptive method of threshold estimation for removing impulse noise from images, based on Double Density Wavelet Transform (DDWT). The performance of image de-noising algorithms using wavelet transforms can be improved significantly by fixing an optimum threshold value, based on the analysis of the statistical parameters of subband coefficients. In this proposed method, the choice of the threshold estimation is carried out by analyzing the statistical parameters of the wavelet subband coefficients like standard deviation, arithmetic mean and geometrical mean. Here the noisy image is first decomposed into many levels to obtain different frequency bands using DDWT. Then soft thresholding method is used to remove the noisy coefficients, by fixing the optimum threshold value by the proposed method. Experimental results on several test images by using the proposed method show that, the proposed method yields significantly superior image quality and better Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR). Some comparisons with the best available results will be given in order to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.

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