A GPU parallel implementation of the Local Principal Component Analysis overcomplete method for DW image denoising

Abstract

We focus on the Overcomplete Local Principal Component Analysis (OLPCA) method, which is widely adopted as denoising filter. We propose a programming approach resorting to Graphic Processor Units (GPUs), in order to massively parallelize some heavy computational tasks of the method. In our approach, we design and implement a parallel version of the OLPCA, by using a suitable mapping of the tasks on a GPU architecture with the aim to investigate the performance and the denoising features of the algorithm. The experimental results show improvements in terms of GFlops and memory throughput.