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February  2016, 10(1): 27-50. doi: 10.3934/ipi.2016.10.27

A fractional-order derivative based variational framework for image denoising

 1 School of Statistics and Mathematics, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou 310018, China 2 Department of Mathematics, 358 Little Hall, PO Box 118105, Gainesville, FL 32611

Received  December 2013 Revised  June 2015 Published  February 2016

In this paper, we propose a unified variational framework for noise removal, which uses a combination of different orders of fractional derivatives in the regularization term of the objective function. The principle of the combination is taking the order two or higher derivatives for smoothing the homogeneous regions, and a fractional order less than or equal to one to smooth the locations near the edges. We also introduce a novel edge detector to better detect edges and textures. A main advantage of this framework is the superiority in dealing with textures and repetitive structures as well as eliminating the staircase effect. To effectively solve the proposed model, we extend the first-order primal dual algorithm to minimize a functional involving fractional-order derivatives. A set of experiments demonstrates that the proposed method is able to avoid the staircase effect and preserve accurately edges and structural details of the image while removing the noise.
Citation: Fangfang Dong, Yunmei Chen. A fractional-order derivative based variational framework for image denoising. Inverse Problems & Imaging, 2016, 10 (1) : 27-50. doi: 10.3934/ipi.2016.10.27
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Mag., 16 (1999), 22.  doi: 10.1109/79.799930.  Google Scholar [21] M. Unser and T. Blu, Fractional splines and wavelets,, SIAM Rev., 42 (2000), 43.  doi: 10.1137/S0036144598349435.  Google Scholar [22] Z. Wang, A. C. Bovik, H. R. Sheikh and E. P. Simoncelli, Image quality assessment: From error visibility to structural similarity,, IEEE Trans. Image Process., 13 (2004), 600.  doi: 10.1109/TIP.2003.819861.  Google Scholar [23] J. Weickert, Anisotropic Diffusion in Image Processing,, Stutgart, (1998).   Google Scholar [24] Y. You and M. Kaveh, Fourth order partial differential equations for noise removal,, IEEE Trans. Image Process., 9 (2000), 1723.  doi: 10.1109/83.869184.  Google Scholar [25] J. Zhang and Z. Wei, Fractional variational model and algorithm for image denoising,, IEEE Fourth International Conference on Natural Computation, 5 (2008), 524.  doi: 10.1109/ICNC.2008.172.  Google Scholar [26] J. Zhang and Z. Wei, A class of fractional-order multi-scale variational models and alternating projection algorithm for image denoising,, Applied Mathematical Modelling, 35 (2011), 2516.  doi: 10.1016/j.apm.2010.11.049.  Google Scholar [27] J. Zhang, Z. Wei and L. Xiao, Adaptive fractional-order multi-scale method for image denoising,, J. Math. Imaging Vis., 43 (2012), 39.  doi: 10.1007/s10851-011-0285-z.  Google Scholar
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