Image Denoising Using Wavelets

Wavelet transforms enable us to represent signals with a high degree of sparsity. This is the principle behind a non-linear wavelet based signal estimation technique known as wavelet denoising. In this report we explore wavelet denoising of images using several thresholding techniques such as SUREShrink, VisuShrink and BayesShrink. Further, we use a Gaussian based model to perform combined denoising and compression for natural images and compare the performance of these methods.