Single image super-resolution reconstruction in presence of mixed Poisson-Gaussian noise

• Single image super-resolution (SR) reconstructionaims to estimate a noise-free and blur-free high resolution imagefrom a single blurred and noisy lower resolution observation.Most existing SR reconstruction methods assume that noise in theimage is white Gaussian. Noise resulting from photon countingdevices, as commonly used in image acquisition, is, however,better modelled with a mixed Poisson-Gaussian distribution. Inthis study we propose a single image SR reconstruction methodbased on energy minimization for images degraded by mixedPoisson-Gaussian noise.We evaluate performance of the proposedmethod on synthetic images, for different levels of blur andnoise, and compare it with recent methods for non-Gaussiannoise. Analysis shows that the appropriate treatment of signaldependentnoise, provided by our proposed method, leads tosignificant improvement in reconstruction performance.

Subject headings

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Data- och informationsvetenskap -- Datorseende och robotik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Computer and Information Sciences -- Computer Vision and Robotics (hsv//eng)

Keyword

super-resolution

image zooming

signal dependent noise

energy minimization

variance stabilizing transform

total variation.

Computerized Image Processing

Datoriserad bildbehandling

Datoriserad bildanalys

Computerized Image Analysis

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