SPATIO-TEMPORAL POINTWISE ADAPTIVE DENOISING OF VIDEO : 3 D NON-PARAMETRIC REGRESSION APPROACH

An adaptive spatio-temporal algorithm for video denoising is presented. The local polynomial approximation (LPA) is exploited in order to design 3D directional Þltering kernels. For each speciÞed direction in the 3D space-time domain, an “optimal” scale (size of the kernel’s support) is selected using the intersection of conÞdence intervals (ICI) rule. In this way a pointwise adaptive spatio-temporal estimator is constructed. Experimental results show an advanced performance of the proposed method with a good noise attenuation and nearly perfect edges and change-point preservation.