Image mapping using local and global statistics

14 February 2008 Image mapping using local and global statistics

Yuanzhen Li, Edward Adelson

Proceedings Volume 6806, Human Vision and Electronic Imaging XIII; 680614 (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.784164
Event: Electronic Imaging, 2008, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

We describe a set of techniques for mapping one image to another based on the statistics of a training set. We apply these techniques to the problems of image denoising and superresolution, but they should also be useful for many vision problems where training data are available. Given a local feature vector computed from an input image patch, we learn to estimate a subband coefficient of the output image conditioned on the patch. This entails approximating a multidimensional function, which we make tractable by nested binning and linear regression within bins. This method performs as well as nearest neighbor techniques, but is much faster. After attaining this local (patch based) estimate, we force the marginal subband histograms to match a set of target histograms, in the style of Heeger and Bergen.1 The target histograms are themselves estimated from the training data. With the combined techniques, denoising performance is similar to state of the art techniques in terms of PSNR, and is slightly superior in subjective quality. In the case of superresolution, our techniques produce higher subjective quality than the competing methods, allowing us to attain large increases in apparent resolution. Thus, for these two tasks, our method is very fast and very effective.

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Yuanzhen Li and Edward Adelson "Image mapping using local and global statistics", Proc. SPIE 6806, Human Vision and Electronic Imaging XIII, 680614 (14 February 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.784164

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