Abstract
A feature-preserving non-local means (FP-NLM) filter has been developed recently for denoising images containing small and weak particlelike objects. It explores the commonly used non-local means filter to employ two similarity measurements taken in the original greyscale image and a feature image which measures the particle probability in the original image. In this paper, we report a new approach to image mapping for constructing the feature image by incorporating both spatial and temporal (2D+t) characteristics of objects. We present a 2D+t FP-NLM filter based on the improved particle probability image. Experiments show that the new filter can achieve better balance between particle enhancement and background smoothing for images under severe noise contamination and has a greater capability in detecting particles of interest in such environments.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Procedings of the British Machine Vision Conference 2010 |
Publisher | BMVA Press |
Number of pages | 11 |
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Publication status | Published - 2010 |
Event | 2010 21st British Machine Vision Conference, BMVC 2010 - Aberystwyth, United Kingdom Duration: 31 Aug 2010 → 3 Sept 2010 |
Conference
Conference | 2010 21st British Machine Vision Conference, BMVC 2010 |
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Country/Territory | United Kingdom |
City | Aberystwyth |
Period | 31/08/10 → 3/09/10 |