Embedding Intrinsic Mode Function into Anisotropic Diffusion Equation for Image Denoising
Dai Fang①②; Xue Jian-ru①; Zheng Nan-ning①
①Institute of Artificial Intelligence & Robotics, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China; ②School of Science, Xi’an University of Technology, Xi’an 710054, China
Abstract:In this paper, an image denoising model which embeds intrinsic mode function into Perona-Malik model is proposed. Firstly, the image is decomposed into Intrinsic Mode Functions (IMFs) by using empirical mode decomposition technique; each of IMFs captures the feature information under different scales. Secondly, the first and second IMFs are embedded into Perona-Malik model. Experimental results indicate that this method is more efficient than Perona-Malik model in removing Gaussian noise. Moreover, this method can remove salt and pepper noise.