From Insect Vision to a Novel Bio-Inspired Algorithm for Image Denoising

Night active insects inspired the development of image enhancement methods that uncover the information contained in dim images or movies. Here, I describe a novel bionic night vision (NV) algorithm that operates in the spatial domain to remove noise from static images. The parameters of this NV alg...

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Autor principal: Hartbauer, Manfred
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Lenguaje:inglés
Publicado: IntechOpen 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.intechopen.com/chapters/72205
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Sumario:Night active insects inspired the development of image enhancement methods that uncover the information contained in dim images or movies. Here, I describe a novel bionic night vision (NV) algorithm that operates in the spatial domain to remove noise from static images. The parameters of this NV algorithm can be automatically derived from global image statistics and a primitive type of noise estimate. In a first step, luminance values were ln-transformed, and then adaptive local means’ calculations were executed to remove the remaining noise without degrading fine image details and object contours. Its performance is comparable with several popular denoising methods and can be applied to grey-scale and color images. This novel algorithm can be executed in parallel at the level of pixels on programmable hardware.
ISBN:978-1-83962-170-3
DOI:10.5772/intechopen.91911