Image Denoising Based on Undecimated Double Density Dual Tree Wavelet Transform and Modified Firm Shrinkage

This paper presents a novel method for image denoising based on undecimated double density dual tree discrete wavelet transform (UDDDT-DWT). The critically sampled discrete wavelet transform (DWT) suffers from the drawbacks of being shift-variant and lacking the capacity to process directional information in images. The double density dual tree discrete wavelet transform (DDDT-DWT) is an approximately shift-invariant transform capturing directional information. The UDDDT-DWT is an improvement of the DDDT-DWT, making it exactly shift-invariant. An adaptive threshold is found and it is applied using the modified firm shrinkage function. Experimental results over a range of noise standard deviations indicate that the proposed method performs better than other state of the art methods considered.

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