A Novel Denoising Algorithm Based on Wavelet and Non-Local Moment Mean Filtering

Abstract

Denoising is the basis and premise of image processing and an important part of image preprocessing. Denoising can effectively improve image quality, which contributes to subsequent image processing such as image segmentation, feature extraction, and so on. In this paper, we propose a novel image denoising method based on wavelet transform and nonlocal moment mean filtering approach (NMM). The noisy image is firstly denoised by a wavelet-based soft-thresholding denoising technique and NMM is then utilized to further eliminate the rest noises. Meanwhile, the fusion of moment invariants increases the robustness of our denoising algorithm due to the invariance of image scaling, translation, and rotation of color moments. Experiments show that our algorithm achieves a better denoising effect compared with some other denoising approaches.