New England Conservatory of Music

About: New England Conservatory of Music is a education organization based out in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Music education & Disturbance (ecology). The organization has 27 authors who have published 47 publications receiving 1360 citations.

Joint demosaicing and denoising

Abstract: The output image of a digital camera is subject to a severe degradation due to noise in the image sensor. This paper proposes a novel technique to combine demosaicing and denoising procedures systematically into a single operation by exploiting their obvious similarities. We first design a filter as if we are optimally estimating a pixel value from a noisy single-color image. With additional constraints, we show that the same filter coefficients are appropriate for CFA interpolation (demosaicing) given noisy sensor data. The proposed technique can combine many existing denoising algorithms with the demosaicing operation. In this paper, a total least squares denoising method is used to demonstrate the concept. The algorithm is tested on color images with pseudo-random noise and on raw sensor data from a real CMOS digital camera that we calibrated. The experimental results confirm that the proposed method suppresses noise (CMOS image sensor noise model) while effectively interpolating the missing pixel components, demonstrating a significant improvement in image quality when compared to treating demosaicing and denoising problems independently.

Image denoising for signal-dependent noise

Abstract: In this paper, we present a method for removing noise from digital images corrupted with additive, multiplicative, and mixed noise. An image patch from an ideal image is modeled as a linear combination of image patches from the noisy image. We propose to fit this image model to the real-world image data in the total least square (TLS) sense, because the TLS formulation allows us to take into account the uncertainties in the measured data. We develop a method to reduce the contribution from the irrelevant image patches, which will sharpen the edges and reduce edge artifacts at the same time. Although the proposed algorithm is computationally demanding, the image quality of the output image demonstrates the effectiveness of the TLS algorithms.