Denoising

fastNlMeansDenoising

Perform image denoising using Non-local Means Denoising algorithm http://www.ipol.im/pub/algo/bcm_non_local_means_denoising/ with several computational optimizations. Noise expected to be a gaussian white noise

C++: void fastNlMeansDenoising(InputArray src, OutputArray dst, float h=3, int templateWindowSize=7, int searchWindowSize=21 )

Parameters:

• src – Input 8-bit 1-channel, 2-channel or 3-channel image.
• dst – Output image with the same size and type as src .
• templateWindowSize – Size in pixels of the template patch that is used to compute weights. Should be odd. Recommended value 7 pixels
• searchWindowSize – Size in pixels of the window that is used to compute weighted average for given pixel. Should be odd. Affect performance linearly: greater searchWindowsSize - greater denoising time. Recommended value 21 pixels
• h – Parameter regulating filter strength. Big h value perfectly removes noise but also removes image details, smaller h value preserves details but also preserves some noise

This function expected to be applied to grayscale images. For colored images look at fastNlMeansDenoisingColored. Advanced usage of this functions can be manual denoising of colored image in different colorspaces. Such approach is used in fastNlMeansDenoisingColored by converting image to CIELAB colorspace and then separately denoise L and AB components with different h parameter.

fastNlMeansDenoisingColored

Modification of fastNlMeansDenoising function for colored images

C++: void fastNlMeansDenoisingColored(InputArray src, OutputArray dst, float h=3, float hColor=3, int templateWindowSize=7, int searchWindowSize=21 )

Parameters:

• src – Input 8-bit 3-channel image.
• dst – Output image with the same size and type as src .
• templateWindowSize – Size in pixels of the template patch that is used to compute weights. Should be odd. Recommended value 7 pixels
• searchWindowSize – Size in pixels of the window that is used to compute weighted average for given pixel. Should be odd. Affect performance linearly: greater searchWindowsSize - greater denoising time. Recommended value 21 pixels
• h – Parameter regulating filter strength for luminance component. Bigger h value perfectly removes noise but also removes image details, smaller h value preserves details but also preserves some noise
• hForColorComponents – The same as h but for color components. For most images value equals 10 will be enought to remove colored noise and do not distort colors

The function converts image to CIELAB colorspace and then separately denoise L and AB components with given h parameters using fastNlMeansDenoising function.

fastNlMeansDenoisingMulti

Modification of fastNlMeansDenoising function for images sequence where consequtive images have been captured in small period of time. For example video. This version of the function is for grayscale images or for manual manipulation with colorspaces. For more details see http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.131.6394

C++: void fastNlMeansDenoisingMulti(InputArrayOfArrays srcImgs, OutputArray dst, int imgToDenoiseIndex, int temporalWindowSize, float h=3, int templateWindowSize=7, int searchWindowSize=21 )

Parameters:

• srcImgs – Input 8-bit 1-channel, 2-channel or 3-channel images sequence. All images should have the same type and size.
• imgToDenoiseIndex – Target image to denoise index in srcImgs sequence
• temporalWindowSize – Number of surrounding images to use for target image denoising. Should be odd. Images from imgToDenoiseIndex - temporalWindowSize / 2 to imgToDenoiseIndex - temporalWindowSize / 2 from srcImgs will be used to denoise srcImgs[imgToDenoiseIndex] image.
• dst – Output image with the same size and type as srcImgs images.
• templateWindowSize – Size in pixels of the template patch that is used to compute weights. Should be odd. Recommended value 7 pixels
• searchWindowSize – Size in pixels of the window that is used to compute weighted average for given pixel. Should be odd. Affect performance linearly: greater searchWindowsSize - greater denoising time. Recommended value 21 pixels
• h – Parameter regulating filter strength for luminance component. Bigger h value perfectly removes noise but also removes image details, smaller h value preserves details but also preserves some noise

fastNlMeansDenoisingColoredMulti

Modification of fastNlMeansDenoisingMulti function for colored images sequences

C++: void fastNlMeansDenoisingColoredMulti(InputArrayOfArrays srcImgs, OutputArray dst, int imgToDenoiseIndex, int temporalWindowSize, float h=3, float hColor=3, int templateWindowSize=7, int searchWindowSize=21 )

Parameters:

• srcImgs – Input 8-bit 3-channel images sequence. All images should have the same type and size.
• imgToDenoiseIndex – Target image to denoise index in srcImgs sequence
• temporalWindowSize – Number of surrounding images to use for target image denoising. Should be odd. Images from imgToDenoiseIndex - temporalWindowSize / 2 to imgToDenoiseIndex - temporalWindowSize / 2 from srcImgs will be used to denoise srcImgs[imgToDenoiseIndex] image.
• dst – Output image with the same size and type as srcImgs images.
• templateWindowSize – Size in pixels of the template patch that is used to compute weights. Should be odd. Recommended value 7 pixels
• searchWindowSize – Size in pixels of the window that is used to compute weighted average for given pixel. Should be odd. Affect performance linearly: greater searchWindowsSize - greater denoising time. Recommended value 21 pixels
• h – Parameter regulating filter strength for luminance component. Bigger h value perfectly removes noise but also removes image details, smaller h value preserves details but also preserves some noise.
• hForColorComponents – The same as h but for color components.

The function converts images to CIELAB colorspace and then separately denoise L and AB components with given h parameters using fastNlMeansDenoisingMulti function.