An experimental performance analysis of image reconstruction techniques under both Gaussian and non-Gaussian noise models

Abstract

Recently, the images reconstruction approaches are very essential in digital image processing (DIP), especially in terms of removing the noise contaminations and recovering the content of images. Each image reconstruction approach has different mathematical models. Therefore a performance of individual reconstruction approach is varied depending on several factors such as image characteristic, reconstruction mathematical model, noise model and noise intensity. Thus, this paper presents comprehensive experiments based on the comparisons of various reconstruction approaches under Gaussian and non-Gaussian noise models. The employing reconstruction approaches in this experiment are Inverse Filter, Wiener Filter, Regularized approach, Lucy-Richardson (L-R) approach, and Bayesian approach applied on mean, median, myriad, meridian filters together with several regularization techniques (such as non-regularization, Laplacian regularized, Markov Random Field (MRF) regularization, and one-side Bi-Total Variation (OS-BTV) regularization). Three standard images of Lena, Resolution Chart, and Susie (40th) are used for testing in this experiment. Noise models of Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN), Poisson, Salt&Pepper, and Speckle of various intensities are used to contaminate all these images. The comparison is done by varying the parameters of each approach until the best peak-signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) is obtained. Therefore, PSNR plays a vital parameter for comparisons all the results of individual approaches.