In this paper, a geometry-driven nonlinear shock-diffusion equation is presented for image denoising and edge sharpening. An image is divided into three-type different regions according to image features: edges, textures and details, and flat areas. For edges, a shock-type backward diffusion is performed in the gradient direction to the isophote line (edge), incorporating a forward diffusion in the isophote line direction; while for textures and details, a soft backward diffusion is done to enhance image features preserving a natural transition. Moreover, an isotropic diffusion is used to smooth flat areas simultaneously. Finally, a shock capturing scheme with a special limiter function is developed to speed the process with numerical stability. Experiments on real images show that this method produces better visual results of the enhanced images than some related equations. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.
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Fu, S., Ruan, Q., Mu, C., & Wang, W. (2007). Geometry-driven nonlinear equation with an accelerating coupled scheme for image enhancement. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 4487 LNCS, pp. 490–496). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72584-8_65
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