Wavelet Domain Image Denoising for Non-Stationary Noise and Signal-Dependent Noise

Abstract

We develop a low-complexity overcomplete wavelet domain method for denoising digital images corrupted with non-stationary white additive Gaussian noise. The noise level for each pixel is estimated from a local window around that pixel. We use a shrinkage function that adapts itself to the noise level and to the spatially changing statistics of the image. Experiments show that this noise model has good results for different non-stationary noise sources. Finally, we extend our method for denoising images corrupted with signal-dependent noise.