A Review of Image Denoising Methods

Image Denoising is one of the fundamental and very important necessary processes in image processing. It is still a challenging and a hot problem for researchers. Images are one of essential representations in every field like education, agriculture, geosciences, aerospace, surveillance, entertainment etc by means of electronic or print media. Images can get corrupted by noise, there has been a great research effort which made solutions for this problem, a number of methods have been proposed. An overview of various methods is given here after a brief introduction. These methods have been categorized on the bases of techniques used.

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