Non-Local Means Denoising

We present in this paper a new denoising method called non-local means. The method is based on a simple principle: replacing the color of a pixel with an average of the colors of similar pixels. But the most similar pixels to a given pixel have no reason to be close at all. It is therefore licit to...

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Main Authors: Antoni Buades, Bartomeu Coll, Jean-Michel Morel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Image Processing On Line 2011-09-01
Series:Image Processing On Line
Online Access:http://www.ipol.im/pub/art/2011/bcm_nlm/