Multiple view image denoising

Abstract

We present a novel multi-view denoising algorithm. Our algorithm takes noisy images taken from different viewpoints as input and groups similar patches in the input images using depth estimation. We model intensity-dependent noise in low-light conditions and use the principal component analysis and tensor analysis to remove such noise. The dimensionalities for both PCA and tensor analysis are automatically computed in a way that is adaptive to the complexity of image structures in the patches. Our method is based on a probabilistic formulation that marginalizes depth maps as hidden variables and therefore does not require perfect depth estimation. We validate our algorithm on both synthetic and real images with different content. Our algorithm compares favorably against several state-of-the-art denoising algorithms.