Density driven diffusion

Abstract

In this work we derive a novel density driven diffusion scheme for image enhancement. Our approach, called D3, is a semi-local method that uses an initial structure-preserving oversegmentation step of the input image. Because of this, each segment will approximately conform to a homogeneous region in the image, allowing us to easily estimate parameters of the underlying stochastic process thus achieving adaptive non-linear filtering. Our method is capable of producing competitive results when compared to state-of-the-art methods such as non-local means, BM3D and tensor driven diffusion on both color and grayscale images. © 2013 Springer-Verlag.